John Rakestraw wrote: > I'm in the midst of a home renovation project, and while the walls are > open I've been pulling cable. The walls will be closed up on Monday, so > I'm running out of time. It occurred to me just this evening that in one > room I might want to have a Squeezebox across the room from the stereo.
If in doubt, drag more cable. When the walls are open, it is essentially free. Put some Ethernet Cat6 and TV and maybe even speaker cables. > I'd like to put a cable in the wall that will deliver the music from > the squeezebox to the stereo. I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, so > I'm hoping someone here can tell me if RG6 coax is an appropriate cable > to put in the wall for this purpose. You should put the SqueezeBox on top of, or beside, the stereo and use short RCA interconnects. I'm not sure I understand why you want to use RG6. > I'm assuming that this solution (if it is one) would require a digital > input on the stereo, and another possible scenario involves an old > stereo that doesn't have digital input. Can someone recommend a type of > wire for this purpose if the stereo doesn't have digital input? > The run I have in mind is about 20 feet (or 6 meters). If you put a squeezebox on the stereo, you just use the Ethernet or even wireless. The Squeezebox is exactly the right box if your old stereo has a free set of aux/tv/tape RCA inputs. The proper digial output cable is 75 ohm, and your RG6 is probably fine with that. You'll need some adaptors at the ends. But I'd just run four or six sets of Ethernet Cat6 and be done. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
