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Eric Seflow - 25 May 2004 00:44 GMT

Hi,
I am new to HA and I am remodeling my house and as I get to new
rooms I am adding items as I go along, well I want to add Whole House Audio
and Video in it I am just running speakers and wires for now.
The question is what type of audio and video cables should I run???

Thanks

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HJK - 26 May 2004 02:44 GMT

> Hi,
> I am new to HA and I am remodeling my house and as I get to new
> rooms I am adding items as I go along, well I want to add Whole House Audio
> and Video in it I am just running speakers and wires for now.
> The question is what type of audio and video cables should I run???

I got some Monster in-wall rated wire and ran the wire to in-ceiling
speakers in all the rooms. Those speaker wires were run to a media
distribution cabinet near the kitchen - in an easily accessible location.
For each room with speakers, I ran CAT5E wire from keypad locations back to
the media distribution cabinet. That takes care of audio.

For video, I used a Channel Plus system with 2100A wall plates... search the
groups for more info. If I had to do it again I would look into the Russound
CAV 6.6 which can do audio and video.

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Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com) - 28 May 2004 02:12 GMT

A new version of the residential cabling standard (ANSI/TIA-570-B) has
just been published. It calls for (6) x 16AWG or thicker conductors plus
(1) x CAT5E cable between the audio amplifier and the distribution device
(DD); (4) x 16AWG or thicker plus (1) CAT5E between the amplifiers and
the zone keypads/volume controls; (2) x 16AWG or thicker between the
keypads and each of the speakers. That should take care of left/right
channel audio, remote low voltage power and signal (such as IR control)
distribution

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>> Hi,
>> I am new to HA and I am remodeling my house and as I
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>> The question is what type of audio and video cables should I
>> run???

> I got some Monster in-wall rated wire and ran the wire to in-ceiling
> speakers in all the rooms. Those speaker wires were run to a media
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> back to
> the media distribution cabinet. That takes care of audio.

> For video, I used a Channel Plus system with 2100A wall plates...
> search the
> groups for more info. If I had to do it again I would look into the
> Russound
> CAV 6.6 which can do audio and video.

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