Multi zone audio

[sunray]

Cor this takes me back a bit and to the ruddy jellyfish which never seemed to have enough buttons or controls.

As said above the cloud stuff is great. 15-20 years ago the Zone stuff was everywhere.

How ever after the zone days the Soundweb days came and ohh wow did that ever open things up.

 

1u unit 8 in 8 out full matrix and on board DSP made the 9088xxx units some of the most popular units sold by anyone.

 

The 9088iiss of which I consider to be one of the major technical advancements in the install industry for the past few decades. The 9088iiss can be picked up on eBay for around £100 these days.

Softwares a bit clunky compared to modern equivalents.

 

Modern days the Yamaha MTX series is mind blowing. I love the units!

[jacethebase]

1u unit 8 in 8 out full matrix and on board DSP made the 9088xxx units some of the most popular units sold by anyone.

 

A huge amount of them ended up in the Millennium Dome.

The shipment was split between two trucks, because if one truck was in an accident and wiped out all the units, the factory wouldn't be able to produce enough replacements in time.

 

The 9088iiss of which I consider to be one of the major technical advancements in the install industry for the past few decades. The 9088iiss can be picked up on eBay for around £100 these days.

Softwares a bit clunky compared to modern equivalents.

 

The thing that seems to be the struggle these days is getting a serial interface with the correct pinning etc. I remember keeping one XP laptop far beyond a reasonable retirement date, simply because it could talk to our remaining Soundwebs without issue.

 

If you can get round the interface issues, then they're an absolute steal at £100. We found that the 9088ii had a significantly lower noise floor than its predecessor, so it might be the one to go for.

 

Yeah, I had a specific laptop for the stuff of that generation (still do somewhere)

 

I remember a company called Lundy I think, used to make a nice cable for the soundwebs.

 

Soundwebs, 366’s XTA DP226 etc etc all on bloody serial.

 

Jump 10+ years and we’re all on standard networking for pretty much everything life is so much easier.