TimothyB;187381 Wrote: > > One thing I'd like to do is to be able to balance one pair of speakers > vs. the other. I was thinking about getting a 5.1 amp and wiring the > speakers as front & rear sides. You'll have to make sure it isn't sending only rear speaker sounds to one room, while front spk sounds to another. Better might be a 2 channel amp that has an A/B speaker selector. An impedance controlled multi zone volume control can be bought if you don't have A/B speaker outputs, but those are around $150 alone...
> > I'd planned on putting the amp(s) in the high cabinet over the fridge, > so they wouldn't be taking up "hot" (i.e. more accessible) storage > space. Have run 3 sets of speaker wires to that spot, one set for each > pair of speakers and one to run from the SqueezeBox to the amp. (All > using 18-gauge wire, because that's what the electrician put in.) Speaker wire isn't usually meant to transmit low level analog or digital signals from squeezebox to amp, so ideally you'd have coax or cat5 for long SPDIF/RCA runs (and use a balun to convert impedance for transmission on analog signals), in place of the third set of speaker cables. If it's an easy run you could tape the coax/cat5 to the speaker wire really well and pull the cat5 through to where you need it. That may/not work, so you might call the guy and ask if he'll do it, possibly free/cheap if you told him you wanted to run low level signals from here to there and he used speaker wire. If it's not too long of a run for L&R RCA cables (which can be purchased bundled together) then you can save yourself the cost of baluns, but I think 30-40+ feet would be a long way for unbalanced RCA. I suppose the first thing you need to know for sure is whether your amp will have digital input or analog RCA only. Either could likely be run 20-30(?)' length without using the baluns, so if the squeezebox can be closer to the amp then all the better/easier. -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
