Real World Dante Applications - Multi Room Audio

Real World Dante Applications - Multi Room Audio

If you don't know much about Dante yet, its a low latency digital audio over IP platform which has been big in commercial audio for years but is now making its way to the residential market. 

Dante is coming to the resi market in a big way and Oceanic is uniquely positioned to be your supplier of choice for these cutting edge projects. We not only supply a wide range of Dante enabled products, we genuinely understand how they are set up and how they work together. 

AudioControl has been at the forefront of this shift for quite some time now however Oceanic also has Dante products from Origin and CasaTunes which enable us to deliver entire ecosystems in this way. 

Think about a multi room audio system where you have amps in multiple racks around the property, sources in one area and amps in another, TV's distributed sound the home - and everything working together with no interconnects other than your network! 

Take this example: 

In the above example, TV's feed back into the system over the network via AudioControl eTV units. This means the TV remotes work as volume controllers in the rooms. They dont even need power at the TV's as they are PoE devices!

CasaTunes multi room music server feeds into the amp in one of the racks. 

Any set of speakers in the entire home can play back music from any of the multi room audio sources. The additional amplifiers have no local inputs of any kind, just the Dante network connection!

The whole lot is controlled seamlessly by CasaTunes - which can also plug into common home automation systems like C4 and RTI. 

What's more - CasaTunes all new Dante music serves can be setup on the network separately from any of the amps! A truly distributed system. 

Sound daunting? Its simpler than you might think!

We have a complete system running at our HQ consisting of a CasaTunes server in one rack, two amps in racks two and three (in separate buildings!), and a TV in the showroom with native volume control. The entire system can be controlled via CasaTunes and you can stream to any room from your phone.

We can show you this in person at our HQ. It's certainly worth a visit for a run down on this state of the art approach to system design. We are happy to help you design your first project. 

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