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Re: Re: Whole House Audio Questions



> The reason for going for a centralised solution, is that I do not
> want any equipment visible in the rooms apart from the ceiling
> speaker grills. I am wary of a solution that has to have electrical
> equipment such as amps or streaming media devices hidden in voids or
> in cupboards. A central "rack" with streaming and
amplification
> would, IMHO make the system easier to maintain and upgrade.
>
> I too originally thought of CAT5 as the cabling scheme. But given
> that the end equipment in this case is, and will always be
> loudspeakers it seems simpler to run speaker cable. I am using CAT5
> for everything else but given the devices you would need at each end
> it seems like overkill to drive speakers
>

Just an additional thought if you need to inject local signals into this
centralised approach you
can always use kat 5 to send the signal into an input on the centralised
amp.

Nick.




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