During the restoration process of my home I am hoping to install A/V equipment seamlessly into all the key areas. I decided to start the process by installing a simple ceiling mounted speaker into the bathroom powered by an old Hi/Fi amplifier streaming music wirelessly from my iTunes library. After a lot of research on the net i decided to purchase the following:
1x Speakercraft ceiling mounted speaker
1x Apple Airport Express
1x old Hi/Fi amplifier (from relatives shed)
I installed the speaker in the bathroom and ran speaker cable in the loft and down into the airing cupboard in the main bedroom were the amplifier and Airport Express can be powered and mounted.
Due to the dirty/dusty nature of a loft space I decided to make a box for the speaker to sit in to protect it, I also think this helps with the bass frequencies which can sometimes be lacking in this kind of install.
As this is a single speaker install I needed to convert the stereo signal from the Airport Express to a mono signal that included both left and right channels.
For example - Many of the old Beatles tracks are mixed in the studio with the vocals panned hard right, if you play this track without converting the stereo signal to mono you would not hear the vocals through the single speaker.
See next post for more details on the Stereo to mono converter.
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