Audio and Cat5 (Another Newbie Question.. Sorry All!0 {Scanned for Viruses}

[Ross McKillop <home@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Another newbie question for you.. currently considering options for
Whole House Audio, both being able to listen to the same thing through
the house and different music in each room.

There is Cat5 cable to all rooms (more than one per room of course ;)
so the ideas that have come to me so far are;

Distribute line-level output from lounge sources (and probably some
bizarre
multi-soundcard jukebox server thing) over the Cat 5 to amplifiers or
simple
powered speakers (e.g. kitchen doesnt need anything fancy) in each
room.
Control by either IR remote link back to the source

The SLIMp3 devices i've seen look very interesting, and some people
even
seem to have successfully recessed them into walls in their bathrooms
etc...

Apparently, these are also capable of synchronised playback, so that 2
or 3
all play the same thing, together... These would all simply be
connected to
the network using the cat5 infrastructure, and audio distributed to
them as an
mp3 stream, there is also the Exstreamer boxes which looked quite
interesting...

Anyway, to stop waffling and actually ask something.. wondered if
anyone had better ideas (preferably using Cat5 for distribution ... i
dont want to have to start running speaker cables all over the place
too!) or if anyone on this list had used either the SLIMp3 or
Exstreamer boxes and what their experiences of them were.

Thanks again,

Ross


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