Re: A Professional Finish

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What are the Farnell audio/video distribution units like?

Keith



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "bartmaguire" <bartmaguire@y...>
wrote:
> Hello
> I have finally got around to tidying up my cobbled together multi-
> room audio system.  For four years it has been an amplifier with
> dual speaker outputs fed through a speaker splitter into four
> rooms.  Control has been via One4All wireless IR extenders in each
> room and remembering to carry the remote control around! (or not -
> in practice the remote control stays upstairs and control
downstairs
> is by going into the utility room, off the hall, where the hifi is)
> Additional control is supplied by a
> <a href="http://www.redrat.co.uk/start.htm";>Redrat</a
href> which
> changes channels on the
> satellite receiver, changes input sources on the hifi and switches
> the system off at night and on in the morning (which means I wake
up
> to the World Service news)
> Now I have bought two better amplifiers and a couple of audio
> splitters from <a href="http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/product.asp?
>
catalog%5Fname=CPC+Catalogue&category%5Fname=Audio+Video+%2D+Audio%
> 2DVideo+Equipment+and+Accessories+%2D+Amplifiers&product%
> 5Fid=276509">CPC</a href>
> and an in the process of rebuilding the system.
> The wireless IR extenders are not the most reliable, but they do
> have the advantage that I can use the original remote and so have
> all the functions available.  Hardwired extenders would be better
> but seem quite expensive - anyone know of an affordable product
(or
> simple instructions for making one)?
> I contemplated making up a <a href="http://www.schaeffer-
> apparatebau.de/English/index.htm">wall-mounted keypad</a
href>
with
> the switches
> wired back to the contacts in the amplifier, but I can't find any
> buttons that would be good enough.  I have scoured the catalogues
of
> CPC and Farnell, Maplin,
> Rapidelectronics, Keene and RS without success.  The nearest I can
> find are low-profile stainless steel vandal resistant switches,
but
> they are all too big and rather expensive.  Anyone know a source
of
> small, high quality, buttons?
> What I am aiming for is a panel like these:
> <a href="http://www.polaron.co.uk/controls/mcpaud-1102.htm";>this
</a
> href> or
> <a href="http://www.librasys.com/products.html#product3
> ">this</a href>. I know that Richard from Librasys posts
here -
> where do you get your
> buttons Richard?



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