Stereo components for the Kitchen?

[f13ldy]

I'm looking at extending my wireless music to another room with the addition of another airport express.

I'm looking at spending around £120.

So just browsing Richer Sounds they have these 2 on their main page.

http://www.richersounds.com/product/bookshelf-spea...
http://www.richersounds.com/product/amplifiers-rec...

Any ideas if this will suffice? I need to be able to plug red/white phonos into an aux connection is the only requirement of an amp.
Sound quality hasn't got to be amazing (I've got a Bose in the living room so I'm clearly not bothered). Just after a nice decent sound.

Or if anyone has any other suggestions, maybe an all-in-one containing DAB would be nice, but not essential.

[Mr_Yogi]

Well if you are already streaming music, you could look at a squeezebox boom, you wouldn't need another Apple AE then, providing you have a mac/pc on which to run the Squeezebox software.

[Bullett]

I have a squeezebox radio in the kitchen and it's great (for the kitchen).
I'd not put seperates in a kitchen because of the space and the grease, steam problem potential.

[Toffer]

Agree with earlier comment...kitchen environments do not mix well with electronics. Why not have a listen to the KEF Ci50r Ceiling Speaker? They are the size of an electrical spotlight fitting and work well too!

[miniman]

So just to be clear, Squeezebox will connect to and control an iTunes instance?

[gbbird]

Toffer said:

Agree with earlier comment...kitchen environments do not mix well with electronics. Why not have a listen to the KEF Ci50r Ceiling Speaker? They are the size of an electrical spotlight fitting and work well too!

You can ceiling mount Anthony Gallo Micro's too. Meant to give a very good sound indeed.

g

[dalos260]

I agree that the accoustics in kitchens aren't ideal, but I still don't think you can beat the sound of a proper 'hi-fi' enclosed speaker. As long as the aesthetics are to your liking, I would tend to (as I have done myself) use bookshelf speakers.

[f13ldy]

The thing is the airport express method allows me to control my itunes via my iphone and also select which speakers will play the music, so if I move around the house, I can have it follow me (my long term goal).

Also I can create playlists on the fly as it were.

I see the steam and grease angle are a problem though.

[Bullett]

My set up is.

PC/Server upstairs running itunes and Squeezebox server app.
ipod touch running ipeng
Squeezebox radio in the Kitchen (all in one box with a speaker, display, amp etc)
Squeezebox receiver in the lounge (just a received with optical and din outs so you can use it with separates)

Everything communicates over wifi.

The server app picks up play lists etc from itunes but can also pick up it's own and just directly access any mp3s (or most other format files). You control the radio directly or you can use the ipeng app to control the radio and the receiver either independently or together.

I've very happy with it.