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Okay here's an interesting one - I have the chance to make a small 'second system' in my kitchen. The kitchen is tiny, so the only possibility is some ceiling mounted speakers - fortunately I am having a new suspended ceiling in a fortnight's time, with downlighters, at which point it should be relatively straightforward to ask a couple of extra holes to be put in for some ceiling mounted speakers. So Q1 is - any recommendations for those?
Secondly, the amplification needs to be small as I plan on hiding it in the ceiling void also. Q2 - does anyone have any experience or recommendations for Gainclone vs Tripath T Amps or anything else relevant? Low maintenance and low heat dissipation so no valves.
Q3 - the most interesting probably - what about the source? In the main system, I listen to vinyl, FM and CD. Here I'd probably like ipod and radio, which could be DAB (I've got a little portable unit with a headphone out). So the easiest thing would probably be a female headphone jack input, maybe mounted on a wall socket... but the future is probably some kind of wireless streaming, which all makes my head hurt, but if any of you clever people have ideas hit me, oh and I'd quite like to use a Raspberry Pi too, because reasons, thanxbai