Re: Looking for a whole house Audio cable recommendation

[Tony Colliver <tc@xxxxxxx>]

My approach to this is do have (relatively) local power amps for each room
and
drive the input to the amp over the majority of the total distance betwixt
source and destination speakers.

I'm not a Hi-Fi nut, but I do not like being able to 'hear' the equipment
(i.e.
the effects lengthy high current cable runs in this case).

The down side of this approach is that you have heat generating
(relatively)
prone to breakdown amplifiers sprinkled around the house in difficult to
get at
locations (like under floors).  It would of course be possible to break the
low
level signal out of the wall into a socket and have the amp extant within
each
room, but I don't plan to take this approach, as many of the speakers will
be
either ceiling or wall mounted (embedded), and SWMBO does not like excess
'clutter' of this nature in rooms anyway.

(In practice I'm quite lucky, as our house has a small alcove on each floor
(kind of a node 0.5) which is sufficiently close to each room to allow the
central location of amplifiers whilst still not incurring speaker cable
runs
very much longer than in your standard all in one room setup anyway.