aubuti;137653 Wrote: > Pat, I take your point on the relative costs, but do you have any > specific recommendations for balun devices? I'm thinking about using my > existing cat5e wiring to get line-level audio to the other side of the > house. A Google search turned up devices by ETS and Intelix that seem > to fit the bill, for about US$70-80 each. Any opinions on these or > other brands? Thanks. I'm using a pair of Intelix A2 baluns to get music from my living room to my kitchen through CAT5e cabling. The sound quality is indistinguishable from the source, at least with the mid-fi system I've got in the kitchen. However, be careful to choose baluns that cover the full frequency range. The Intelix A2s are spec'ed for 10 to 50K Hz (+/- 3dB). Many of the other audio baluns I looked into only went down to 60 Hz.
By the way, if you use Cat5 for baluns, you must use dedicated cable, as they cannot share a cable with any Ethernet or active networking devices (routers, bridges, switches, etc.) -- TiredLegs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TiredLegs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27500 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
