We often tend to talk about multi-zone systems rather than multiroom. A typical example of this is a bedroom and an en-suite bathroom. Different rooms, but most of our clients don't want compteting music or radio between two rooms that are so closely linked. We'll go through your requirements with you to establish exactly how you want to be able be control, separate and synchronise your music through your home. We will design a system with the appropriate number of zones for you and your lifestyle

Benefits of a multi-zone system
Obviously you can get different music or radio in different rooms by using multiple systems. Portable radio in the bathroom, separate mini-systems in the family's bedrooms and maybe one or more "serious" AV setups in the living room, conservatory etc. Or, looked at another way, you can have all your favourite music with you all the time with a digital music player - there's a lot of people around these days with small personal players with distinctive white earphones....we'll come back to them later.

Multiroom or multi-zone systems use a different approach.

We'd summarise the benefits as being:

Design - a well designed system should give you music and radio where you want without you noticing how it is delivered there

• Discreet speakers - maybe ceiling or wall recessed, maybe disguised
• No equipment on display apart from what you what you need to control it - unless you want it! We do have some clients who like having their kit displayed in a listening room for instance.

Convenience - A music server can have the whole house's music stored on it and made available to anyone who wants it.

If you - or a group of you - want to pull different music to different zones - say the same cool ambient music to your living room, dining room and terrace as you entertain while the kids listen to Linkin Park in the playroom. That sounds like a noisy house! but because a well designed system makes it easier to access your music and enjoy more of it, you'll find yourself listening to a wider range of things more often.

Put simply, multi-zone systems make it easier to enjoy your music.

Quality - Convenience isn't worth much if you're forced into making compromises on quality. Audio quality and different people's perception of what quality audio is is a subject too huge for here. We try to simplify things by establishing what you're trying to achieve in each zone, what your expectations are, what your budget is and designing the best possible solution to meet your needs.

Multi-zone systems sound fabulous when done well - that's what we aim to do.