Re: Loudspeaker Cabling?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Nik,

Downstairs I'm going to do the following:

A stereo speaker plate in each corner of all the major rooms, like this
one:
http://www.letsautomate.com/10640.cfm?CFID=35472&CFTOKEN=79253230

And a single in-ceiling mounted speaker for TTS announcements in the middle
of the room.

_ALL_ of these speakers will be wired back to a speaker patch panel in N0.

I will also be putting one or more of the above speaker plates behind the
location of all major peices of AV equipment, also wired back to the same
patch panel.

Then with simple patch cords I can connect any AV source's speaker outlets
to any pair of speakers... and it's trivial to add automatic switching
later
on if I need to...

Oh, and I fully intend to run _at least_ 1 CAT5 cable to the same locations
as well, and I'll initially leave them un-terminated in the back-box behind
the outlet plates... (just in case)

This scheme will be starting with the kitchen, which is the first
downstairs
to room to be rebuilt. You can follow it here:
http://paulgordon.homeip.net/kitchen
if youre interested ;-)

Upstairs is simpler, as I always have easy access via the loft to the areas
above all the rooms, so putting in speakers is trivial. For that reason, I
haven't put plates in upstairs.

Paul G.


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