I have a house with a 10 year old Control4 system that really only ever used audio, with 5 zones. It could only ever stream one audio source to the various zones at a time. Two zones had touch screens to control input, and the rest had simple on/off and volume controls (single gang, ~ light switch size).
The controller died and I am interested in moving outside of constraint of being dealer installed.
So basically I am starting with a number of rooms with hard wired speakers and looking for a system to deliver music to multiple zones
I also have a pretty decent sized collection of music including a lot of CDs that aren’t available on your streaming services, so some way to manage that collection would be useful
Two things I have come across and was looking at are
HTD.com - Lync6 v3 - looks like it should be able to handle the selection of inputs and allocation to output zones, also can simultaneously direct different sources to different zones
https://www.htd.com/Products/Whole-House-Audio/
and
CasaTunes -
https://www.casatunes.com/systems
The upside of both is that they seem to handle multi input / multi output better, and are about 50-75 percent less expensive than getting a Control4 reseller to help out.
It appears like the CasaTunes system has the capacity to manage a library of music. HTD on their website seem to indicate they interface to systems like CasaTunes
Is anyone familiar with these systems? Any opinions?
Or any other recommendations for moving away from my current system and making use of a wired house?
Thanks