Hi,
I have looked into this before but never taken it any further but again find myself pondering over the feasibility of using multiple Airport express points along with small speakers to pump low volume background music and pre recorded announcement broadcasts from iTunes throughout a 1,000 sqm room filled with a shell scheme for an exhibition.
I can't have music too loud in any single area - instead will need a blanket coverage but would like if the majority of people in the room (up to 500+ people at a time) can hear both the music and more importantly announcements.
I was thinking of 8 airport expresses and 8 single speakers - I can have power points located 10 feet off the ground on top of the shell scheme and dotted equally around the room to maximise coverage.
I will be centrally located within room with a macbook Pro running itunes (also have an ipad2 and iphone4 which would be good to run playlists and announcement from).
Is this doable? and if so would i need an airport extreme as well as the airport expresses?
I have a budget of around £1,000 and if this works would be able to use this system annually and ideally also at 3 other events.
I can probably get in an AV company who would charge around the same money but I would then have the expense every year at every event - so costing me maybe £4k a year instead of £1k. Also - it would be overkill to have a big loud PA system when the music has to be so quiet anyway that people can hear themselves talk over it.
Can anyone with experience of Airport Express and speakers give me any pointers on this and advice on decent speakers to use would also be very much appreciated - a single speaker at each point would be preferable.
Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
Andy
I have looked into this before but never taken it any further but again find myself pondering over the feasibility of using multiple Airport express points along with small speakers to pump low volume background music and pre recorded announcement broadcasts from iTunes throughout a 1,000 sqm room filled with a shell scheme for an exhibition.
I can't have music too loud in any single area - instead will need a blanket coverage but would like if the majority of people in the room (up to 500+ people at a time) can hear both the music and more importantly announcements.
I was thinking of 8 airport expresses and 8 single speakers - I can have power points located 10 feet off the ground on top of the shell scheme and dotted equally around the room to maximise coverage.
I will be centrally located within room with a macbook Pro running itunes (also have an ipad2 and iphone4 which would be good to run playlists and announcement from).
Is this doable? and if so would i need an airport extreme as well as the airport expresses?
I have a budget of around £1,000 and if this works would be able to use this system annually and ideally also at 3 other events.
I can probably get in an AV company who would charge around the same money but I would then have the expense every year at every event - so costing me maybe £4k a year instead of £1k. Also - it would be overkill to have a big loud PA system when the music has to be so quiet anyway that people can hear themselves talk over it.
Can anyone with experience of Airport Express and speakers give me any pointers on this and advice on decent speakers to use would also be very much appreciated - a single speaker at each point would be preferable.
Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
Andy
