RE: Best way to feed TV and audio

[Phil Harris]

> Amp could be 10-15m away from TV - is this too far for a reliable
> signal?

Sounds like the amp is back in your wiring cabinet almost! 15m is one
hell of a run. You can run audio this distance and it will survive but
be wary of picking up induced noise (which is why you're using KAT5s in
the first place).

> I like this idea for getting better quality sound from TV broadcasts,
> but I also want to use the amp in 'stand-alone' mode for playing off
> a tuner or a CD player (both in node 0 and transmitted over KAT5).
> I'd rather not route those signals through the TV (which might not be
> on) if possible. How do you handle this situation?

I've said how I handle my situation ... the DVD is routed through the TV
so that I pipe either DVD or TV sound into the TEAC via the AUX input
and the TEAC has a tuner and CD player so that's easy.

How I'd handle *YOUR* situation is a different question ... what you're
wanting to do is overly complicated by the fact that your amp is not in
either "node 0" (I hate that term) nor is it anywhere close to
your TV
(10-15m is almost the other side of most modern houses!)

>From what you're saying the way I would do it would be to run a KAT5
sender from your equipment cabinet up to the TV, have a KAT5 receiver
strapped to the back of the TV with its terminating resistors removed
from the RJ45 input and then pass the signal on to another KAT5 receiver
behind the amp. You wouldn't be able to pipe your TV through to the amp
but if you have no flexibility in positioning equipment then - well -
tough!

(Actually, the way *I* would do it is to move the amp over to the TV but
that seems waaay to easy doesn't it?)

Phil