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Pre-wired house- Need help with A/V Distribution with CAV6.6



I am just starting to get into some of this stuff because I have bought a
new house which was pre-wired for whole house A/V distribution.

The builder tried to sell me a $15,000 Elan system that I thought was more
than I needed and more than I needed to spend and I didn't like the
proprietary programming aspect of Elan.  So he left me with just the wiring,
which I assumed was fairly standard.  (The house was 90% done when I bought
it so the wiring had already been done.)

After some research in this forum and elsewhere, I decided to order the
Russound CAV6.6 and at least make an attempt to do hook it up myself.  But
now that I have just begun reading the manual, I fear I have a major problem
in the keypad wiring. (FYI, I am using UNO S1's because the boxes installed
were already single gang but that is not the problem)

The house seems to be wired like this..... In-ceiling speakers go to the
keypad station on the wall in each zone and then Cat 5E is run from the
Keypad station to the media closet.  All the coax goes to the Media Closet
of course.

It appears to me that the CAV needs all the speaker wires to go to the media
room also.  Is this correct?

Any ideas on how to deal with this or what system I should be looking at
that has the speaker hook-ups at the keypad?

Thanks for your help,
Eric




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