Boombox Wall at a Wedding? Need a Decent FM Transmitter

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hollyrockets

hollyrockets

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Hello, Folks!

So a couple of friends of mine are getting married in June and want part of my boombox wall at their wedding to play music. They said they'd pay a couple hundred dollars for a decent transmitter. Anyone have suggestions?

I do not need to be able to transmit very far, maybe 100 feet max, but I want the signal to be strong enough to put out quality sound to at least 2 M70s, my M90, and my discolite.

I've had a cheapo one and they suck. But I'm not sure if $200 is good enough to get what I need. Maybe I could take their $200 and add a little and get a really decent one... It would be nice to just get one that would transmit to the whole wall (a dream of mine is to get the wall going all at the same time once the rest of my boxes are fixed.)

Any Suggestions?
 
Beosystem10

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I gave up on my cheap iCast one and have recently replaced it with the LineX. It's slightly dearer at around £10 here but the quality is amazing, it would be illegal to use without winding the aerial around a former to reduce its range and as it is, it can be picked up on the car radio when I turn off the main road into the scheme where I stay, around 1/4 Mile from that road!
The only thing better would be a professional one and a quick check on the radio forum suggests that they're illegal there just as they are here in the hands of privateers.
The only downside to it is that it doesn't work at the HF end of the FM broadcast band, it has a selection of presets between 88.4MHz and 91.4MHz but don't let this put you off as it can, even without rolling the aerial right out, easily make itself heard when it's only 0.9MHz from the nearest broadcast. Not sure whether the USA version takes into account the different scan increments but even if it doesn't, it'll still work to a set with manual FM tuning. ;-)

Details on this Amazon page.
 
restocat

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frontside5 said:
Can you not just use line-in for all? A hardwire connection is always best and if this is a wall, there's space to hide all the wires behind it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RCA-Composite-Video-and-Stereo-Audio-Splitter-1-Input-8-Output-/271291123141
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Sounds like a good idea. it would be a shame to go to all that trouble and have some static come out. especially at a wedding.
"A M90 ruined my wedding" is not something you want to see as a tabloid news story.

Are these radios going to be the sole dj Setup, or just background props? Are you the DJ? will they have a microphone at the wedding? if not, your setup can take care of that as well. although a feedback loop taking out your M90 would really suck...
 
AE_Stereo

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As well, can't you use the Line in & Line outs cascaded? If all the boxes have Line in & Line out, then from the source deck start connecting Line-out to Line-in successively to all the boxes.

Only one problem would be - I have seen that some boxes have Line-out level a bit higher than Line-in level (This is where you can actually use the VUs for a cause). So find the ones with lower line-out level and connect them first in the chain. Only investment will be the RCA cables!
 
THAFUZZ

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Holly, a few years ago, I was approached by My Son's Special Olympic's team to provide music for their Winter dance. It was held in a school gym and they didn't have enough cash for a professional DJ. I successfully used My Laptop (iTunes) with line out into My big Fisher PH-492, then, daisy chained a few other of My heavy hitters using Line In/Outs. I stacked a cool wall of boxes and everyone was "Blown away". I just went to Radio Shack, and a few thrift stores to purchase a few Line in jacks and Radio Shack sells extension cords for them. Keep us updated. ;-)
 
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