OT: Kitchen sound system.

[Clive Arthur]

For years, we had a car radio/CD player mounted under a high level cupboard powered from a mains PSU and using a couple of speakers on top of the cupboards. This worked well, but the kitchen has now changed.

The kitchen has a lot of hard surfaces, and is never going to be a hi-fi listening room, but we'd like a CD player and radio, mono is fine. No problem there, but remote battery powered speakers would be good so we can move them around to where we need the sound - especially useful with extractors running.

So I was thinking a fixed CD/radio with remote Bluetooth speakers, but none of the CD/radio units I can find incorporate a Bluetooth transmitter, although many of them will receive from a 'phone or whatever. I know I could buy a Bluetooth transmitter to plug into the headphone socket, but that's one more thing to charge.

Does something exist which will do what I want, ie fixed CD/radio with remote wireless speakers?

Cheers

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

It may not be practical in your situation, but I was irritated at the constant unplugging of the microwave to supply a CD.

I solved the problem with two ceiling mounted speakers from Ebay, a small amp and 12V smps. Having gone that far, the next step was a Ferguson Ariva Satellite/ Terrestrial combi reciever.

The Amp, PSU and Ariva were placed in a cupboard with a small HD tv fixed to the door.

Overkill possibly, but the system will never, ever need an upgrade and although it does not play CD,s, a USB stick in the Ariva provides recorded audio.

The audio quality is good, helped no doubt by the speaker separation and clear audio path.

The cost was around £300-00 for everything, although the TV signal and LNB output were already routed into the loft.

AB

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Decent speakers are always power hungry. Far more so than the radio part of the installation.

Ceiling speakers can be very good in something like a kitchen. Of course they'd need wiring in.