Bathroom & Shower Music Set Up - Your Recommendations Please

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I have just had a new bathroom and shower room fitted and I have put a pair of Kef Ci50R's in the ceiling in each room with speaker wire running back to a cupboard with power in.

Now the question is what can I put in the cupboard?

I want to be able to stream music from my pc and have independent wireless internet radio, something like the Logitech Duet? (a touch expensive) but I also need something to power the speakers, a cheap Micro CD player maybe to act as an amp? And finally I would like to have something that I can switch the speakers on or off in each room, ideally with independant volume control.

Now as this is only for music or radio whilst taking a bath or shower or shave or other, and I presume the acoustics wont be great in these rooms, I would like any great ideas for this to work with minimal cost, so over to you people who know a lot more than me.

 

[Anonymous]

Leave the door open and put on your stereo. Or do what I suspect the majority do, bring a radio into the bathroom.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I never thought of that.
Now why did I get rid of that VHS player?

 

[method man]

sorry cant help. I have a hansgrohe raindance shower and a 3bar Stuart-turner shower pump.

I would need floorstanders in there to listen to music .LOL

 

[TheHomeCinemaCentre]

Sonos is your friend. We use them all the time in bathrooms and you will get good level of volume. I use the Ci160's in my bathroom and the sound is far better than you may expect. Control is simple, you can get the radio as well as Internet radio and services such as Last FM.

Nick

 

[Andrew Everard]

method man:I have a hansgrohe raindance shower and a 3bar Stuart-turner shower pump.

Absolute Shower magazine, anyone...?

 

[TheHomeCinemaCentre]

My thoughts exactly....

 

[Andrew Everard]

Back OT, FWIW we use one of these in the bathroom:

The only drawback is that it needs to be taken out and recharged once a week.

 

[professorhat]

Similar for me Andrew, except I use a Pure Evoke Flow radio with the Chargepaq unit. iPod Touch can be plugged in to Aux socket if desired and the iTunes library can even be streamed to the Touch using the Simplify Media app.

 

[method man]

Andrew Everard:
method man:I have a hansgrohe raindance shower and a 3bar Stuart-turner shower pump.

Absolute Shower magazine, anyone...?

very good.

 

[Anonymous]

These are all good answers, thanks but I should have asked the question before I spent 200 quid on the ceiling speakers, so how am I going to get the best use of them with your current ideas?

 

[Anonymous]

If I was to get the Mondo Wi-Fi what would be the best way to connect it to my speakers?

 

[Dave_]

keeno65:If I was to get the Mondo Wi-Fi what would be the best way to connect it to my speakers?You'll need a stereo amp

 

[professorhat]

Yup, I would guess a stereo amp with A+B speaker option so you can have music in either one room or the other or both. Not sure how you'd get independent volume controls - personally I can't think of anything to allow this without two separate amps but someone else might.

Of course you're only going to be able to control it all from the cupboard which might be a bit irritating, but again, without spending quite a lot on the likes of Sonos or Airport Express / iPod Touch, I can't think of a way of getting round this either.

 

[Anonymous]

Do you think this little amp would do the job?

Seems ideal apart from its in Hong Kong

 

[Anonymous]

This is the answer, 2 of these and I have my amp and independant volume control and its got waterproof connections.

Unless somebody tells me they are no good?

 

[Dave_]

At £10.99 each i wouldn't expect to much,maybe worth a punt though!

 

[Anonymous]

I am going to give them a try, I got 2 for 30.40 inc delivery.

And I will go with the Mondo Wi-Fi

 

[Anonymous]

I'll give you an update on what I have done and one last question.

I got the Revo Mondo and hooked it up to the amps off EBay, rubbish, sound was awful and you only had to move the volume knob the slightest amount and it was way too loud.

So I went out and bought a computer speaker set up with a powered sub with volume and bass control on it and 2 speakers connected to it and a line in. I cut the RCA connectors of the PC speakers and wired them to my ceiling speakers and the sound was great, especially now I have bass from the woofer as well.

The question now is, how do I connect the speaker wires to an RCA plug correctly? at the moment I just have the 2 wires from my speaker connected to the 2 wires coming out of the RCA I cut off the PC speakers, my wires are much thicker.
Thanks