Multi-Room Streaming Amplifier

The best way to achieve balance sounded in a room is by utilizing a stereo (L+R) pair.  This is the most common arrangement for whole home audio, and what Juke typically supports.  Our units do not offer the ability to bridge each channel to mono, but in an instance where there is only one speaker per room, you can buy a speaker that takes both a left and right channel from the Juke and blends them together. 

Within Juke's web interface, there is an ability to adjust the relative zone volume to any level of your choosing.  However, the master volume will be the source you are playing from directly, i.e., the volume slider in your streaming app (Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, etc.)

There are no analog volume controls needed as that can all be controlled digitally with Juke.  But if you are retrofitting an older system that already has analog volume controls installed, they will still work if you choose to use them. 

We have recently rolled out Airplay 2 as part of our new firmware release that is available as a free upgrade for all active units.  The key benefits of Airplay 2 is the ability to stream to Juke and another Airplay 2 enabled device concurrently with the audio playing to those two devices in perfect sync.  Two of the common use cases for this are:

1. Incorporating a portable Airplay 2 enabled speaker in an area of a home that does not have wired speakers installed, essentially making an additional output zone of Juke.
2. Streaming audio to Juke's connected speakers and a separate media room / theater that has speakers  powered by an Airplay 2 enabled surround sound receiver.  

The only limitation is that only one of Juke's 4 embedded airplay inputs can be set to Airplay2. Although any and all output zones can be turned on for a single input.

Juke is meant to support a left and right speaker pair per zone.  So for example, our 6 zone unit, the Juke-6, is intended to power 12 speakers, and our 8 zone unit, the Juke-8, is intended to power 16 speakers. 

For a maximum of one of the zones on the Juke, you can power 2 speaker pairs (4 total speakers) on that zone without overdriving the amp, but you will then lose the ability to stream to those speaker pairs independently in the Juke web interface.

If you have a single speaker in a zone, Juke will be able to power that as well.  It will sound fine but just not be as loud as using a standard left and right speaker pair in that zone as described above. 

Instead of using Bluetooth, Juke utilizes embedded wireless inputs such as Airplay and Spotify Connect.  These communication methods are based on Wi-Fi connection and therefore have far greater range than Bluetooth, allowing for flexible streaming across an entire home with no dropouts as long as the Wi-Fi connection is strong. 

In the event you do still want to use Bluetooth, it can be achieved through the utilization of a few adapter pieces.  Please see the FAQ section on our website for further details on how to do that. 

While Juke does not yet have a wireless integration with Alexa, you are able to utilize an echo dot as a wired input to the Juke, which will then communicate with the other Alexa enabled devices around your home.  

Using the Juke web interface, you're able to assign turn on any combination of zones for any of Juke's 4 inputs.  All of Juke's inputs are preset to wireless out of the box, but 2 of the 4 can be adjusted to take wired analog inputs, such as an Echo Dot mentioned above.  In order to do so, it does require this digitized USB to RCA adapter.