Last week when I was visiting on GameStop on Asematunneli in Helsinki I noticed that they had new figures from Withcer game series on their shelf. There were Triss and Geralt figures and as you can see on the picture above I bought the Triss to my home. Now it is located above the piano with some other gaming figures.
Have to take a look if I will find Yennefer figure some day as well. Maybe I also should buy that Geralt figure if they are still available on GameStop when I am visiting there next time 🙂
I have written previously in this blog (in finnish only) that I have multiroom audio setup in my home. In practice it was made with Google Chromecast Audio devices and different kind of active speakers.
Speakers I had in use were Focal XS Book pair in bedroom, Genelec 6010a pair in living room and JBL clockradio and its built-in speakers in kitchen. Mostly this was good setup but its biggest annoyance was volume control. All of them have own volume controls (Genelec speakers were behind Audiolab M-DAC) so it was annoying to set volume levels since sometimes I had to change volumes from speakers and next time multiroom listening volume levels were wrong because the volume control of speakers were different than previously.
I decided that I want to have multiroom setup where all speakers are similar and without any volume controls in speaker itself so I cannot change volume levels on speaker and I have to control whole audio volume levels with software. I browsed the web and tried to find some good ones but finally I thought that I just do this with Genelec speakers. I use only one Genelec per room so it does not create stereo feeling for listening, but on multiroom audio setup it does not matter at all since I am not in optimal listening position anyway and this setup is meant only for background music listening purposes.
Speaker in the bedroom
Previously I thought that I might not build this with Genelec speakers at first since it might be a little bit too expensive my current budget but after thinking it a little bit more I noticed that it is not that expensive anyway. I had one pair of Genelec 6010a in home anyway so I had need only for one speaker since I had plan to put one speaker per room.
Also if I would have bought another manufacturer speakers it would have cost much more since I would have need for three or more speakers. Also I don’t want that even background music listening is terrible experience so sound quality must be at least good enough and as many might know Genelec speakers are better than just good enough so that was the way to go.
Yesterday after the workday I went to Verkkokauppa.com and bought one Genelec G One speaker, cables and fourth Chromecast Audio. At home I noticed that I forgot to buy another kind of cables so I had to go to Prisma in Malmi to buy another set of cables as well to make multiroom setup work with this speaker setup.
Current setup in living room. Work in progress since I don’t want to let these cables like that.
After I have got correct cables setup was easy to do. From Chromecast Audio 3.5 mm I have a cable which gives two RCA male outputs. Then I have another cable which have 2 x RCA female which is then converted to 1 x RCA male. That 1 x RCA male goes to the speaker so not very complicated setup. I tried to find cable which would have been 1 x RCA male from 3.5 mm but didn’t find so that’s why I have two cables there.
Controlling volume is now much more simpler than previously since all rooms have similar speakers (except on WC where I put my JBL). Of course there is small differences in G One and 6010a (led colour etc.) but none of those changes affect on my multiroom setup and volumes are on same level.
Now I have listened multiple hours with this setup and gotta say that it is much better than my previous one. Volume control is so much easier and there is no possibility to change volumes manually from speaker so it will stay that way in future as well. Also now in every room (except on WC) I have same quality so all have same level of bass and trebles etc.
Genelecin speaker on my kitchen
On Google home if I set volume to 1-2 % it is good for morning and/or night, 10 % is good when I am home alone and want to listen music on enjoyable volume on background and if some friend of mine is visiting 4-6 % is propably optimal volume level on background music so it is still easy to talk and listen music on background.
Shortly said Genelec G One and Genelec 6010a have more than enough volume levels for normal sized (at least in Finland normal sized) apartment which have 60m2 and two rooms + kitchen + WC.
Sometime in future I have to buy Genelec G One or 6010a on WC as well, but currently this setup is good enough 🙂
