Planning / implementing HiFi in a renovation project?

Hello everyone,

we are currently planning and implementing the renovation of our detached house. At the moment, electricity and network are on the agenda, with attention being paid to sufficient sockets (about 12 per room) and network outlets (at least 2 connections per room). Now, the question regarding the "sound system" came to me rather spontaneously, and I wonder if it is still necessary with today's technology to lay generous cables? How have you approached this or how would you proceed regarding this, also concerning speakers in the kitchen or bathroom?

Is there anyone who has experience with ceiling speakers?

I would be very grateful for any ideas and suggestions and look forward to them.

Regards,
DerZert

Wow, you’re waking up old memories. Thirty years ago I read everything about whether you can hear crossing the shields of gold-plated cables :)

You can probably treat music completely digitally as a bitstream, but vinyl is coming back. And analog, a cable is never too thick and never too fuzzy, an amplifier power supply never too fast and so on. As a freak you can really open endless barrels there.

Nevertheless, the experiences with *cough* waiting room speakers are: not as bad as you would expect. Resonance volume makes a big difference, and even with "in the broadest sense cotton" quite a bit can be conjured up. Car speakers are also quite nice there.

In times of Sonos and Echo, I would not waste any thoughts on something like that in the bathroom and kitchen.

Coming out as a HiFi fan with Yamaha and Onkyo system on Canton Fonum speakers. We didn’t lay anything under plaster, that fixes it too much. The two-core pure copper cables run sleekly along the baseboard and don’t visually bother anyone. I consider multi-room sound obsolete. First, you shouldn’t impose the Rhenish Symphony or Ten Years After on everyone in the house just because you feel like it. Second, in my opinion, HiFi means sitting down, centered between the speakers, closing the door, and listening. Not background noise on the side. That works better with Sonos and MP3 players via Bluetooth. So why ceiling speakers and multi-room enjoyment? Otherwise, I can only encourage you not to renounce HiFi. I know Teufel Raumfeld and Sonos and Bose installations, which are certainly expensive and high quality and wireless, but neither reach the warmth nor the clarity in the highs of a real stereo system. They all do Helene Fischer well, but not a symphony or Pink Floyd. All too bass-heavy and compressed. Karsten

For hi-fi as Nordlys describes it, a permanently installed speaker cable is, in my opinion, unnecessary and, if anything, rather inflexible (location, cable type).

For "background music" through ceiling speakers like in a doctor's waiting room, I really see no application in a single-family house. The question then is, where does the music come from, where is the playback device located? The trend has long been towards [WLAN-Aktiv-Lautsprechern] (Raumfeld, today Teufel, Sonos, ...).

So I am planning a fixed wiring for our house construction. However, in a certain multi-room architecture, so that you can, for example, also hear the sound of the TV in the living room while preparing food in the kitchen.