Dear Asa,
Yea, wegner makes some good AESEBU monitors. Several things about
AESEBU...
Cool
- Stereo over one pair
- Single XLR connector is compliant standard
- Lossless quality.
Uncool
- Expensive
- Try separating left and right
- No Cat 5 specification. I submitted one....
Whitebox is pretty simple. BTW AESEBU is balanced in the analog interface
specification.
Regards,
Flint
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:03:51 -0400
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PCI FM Transmitter vs White Box Audio...
Cool! At my desk at VPR, I get audio over CAT5 as well - but it's digital. I
have a pair of edirol monitors with SPDIF inputs. Since it's a fairly short
run, it's not balanced (since it's digital, the quality isn't affected). I
suppose you could also run balanced AES/EBU audio through a house over CAT5,
but converting the AES/EBU to consumer digital is quite expensive.
Asa
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings Lurkers,
I actually send audio from my central audio server, normally getting an IP
stream to about a dozen stereos and old computer speaker sets throughout the
house. The secret? I use RJ-45 cabling... Here is the deal:
Pin RJ 45 Standard
1 10baset Transmit +
2 10baset Transmit -
3 10baset Receive +
4
5
6 10baset Receive +
7
8
Pin White box audio
1 Right In +
2 Right In -
3 Right Out +
4 Left Out +
5 Left Out -
6 Right Out -
7 Left In + 8 Left In -
Each listening station can also transmit. Each station consists of at
least two white boxes, one of which fronts to the RJ-14 and contains
isolation transformers to allow the audio signal to remain balanced.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_audio BTW the telephone company
invented this about 100 years ago. :^). The other box is an RJ-45 plug to
whatever, which is typically either two or four RCA Jacks or one or two mini
plugs...
I have a site that I have been hacking on about this subject for many
years. I suppose I will put it up when I get back from Jobhunting in DC.
I listen to this system every day, and I like it.
Regards,
Paul Flint
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Paul Flint
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