Newbie structured wiring question

["Martin Chambers" <MartinLChambers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have just started wiring a my self-build house and it's come to decision
time re the structured wiring. My current thinking is to adopt the Cris
system as I want to keep costs down. However, their audio setup differs
quite a bit from, say, IPHomenet. Cris has speaker wire to+from in-room
volume control with separate IR receivers connected with cat5. IPHomenet
uses cat5 to in-room volume control which also incorporates IR receiver -
which appears neater. My main question is, can I mix and match? i.e. will
the IPHomenet audio hub fit into the Cris cabinet? A secondary question is,
are both systems pushing the same signal to their respective volume
controls (which both include amplifiers) or are they doing things a
different way?

tia Martin

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