Receiver / Ceiling Speakers

[Rokin]

I'm looking for a home audio solution and I was wondering if purchasing a cheap receiver is basically the only way to go...

I have ceiling speakers in living room / kitchen and back deck. There is volume control knobs on the wall and there is wall plate in the living room. We don't intend on having a TV in this room. I already have a descent receiver, but I'm using it for my TV/ceiling speakers in the basement.

All I want upstairs is to have internet radio. It is not important to have multi-zone. It would be nice to be able to just control it from a device connected to the wall-plate, but being able to control it from iphone/android would be a bonus.

I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a receiver that would ONLY be used for internet radio and possibly cumbersome to control with no TV.

I was looking at something like a Grace Digital Wireless Internet Radio Adapter, but not sure how I could connect that to the speakers. I assume I would still need a receiver.

Anyways, I'm not really current with what is available in this market, so any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[sdifox]

Your current receiver, does it have dual zone? Also do all the speaker wires go to one spot?

 

[Rokin]

Your current receiver, does it have dual zone? Also do all the speaker wires go to one spot?

Yes it does, but I don't believe the wires are connected between upstairs/downstairs. All speaker wires for upstairs go to 1 upstairs wall plate, and all the downstairs speakers go to a downstairs wall plate. The wall plates are on the same spot on each floor, directly above/below each other so really I'm not sure how it was wired as I'm the 2nd owner of this home.

 

[sdifox]

Got any old android tablet or smartphone lying around?

 

[mdram]

sounds like its set up for a whole home audio type thing
take a wall plate apart and see what manufacturer it is and get a compatible system.

if you use a receiver i dont think the volume knobs will work

 

[Rokin]

sounds like its set up for a whole home audio type thing
take a wall plate apart and see what manufacturer it is and get a compatible system.

if you use a receiver i dont think the volume knobs will work

Actually I'm going to call the builder and see if they can tell me who did the install.

I did test my receiver upstairs, and the volume control knobs do adjust the volume.