Folks,
First, thanks for all the excellent info in the forums. It's been a tremendous help in getting my head around an upcoming "new house" project.
We're building a new place - and while I've done some "house wide" audio in the past, this time I'm going to take on a much larger scope that will include video, audio, network, cameras, motorized shades, home control, etc.
I've been looking at wiring options and was hoping to get input/clarity on a couple of questions.
1) I'm planning to run 3-4 CAT6 cables into each room that will have video. I'll use one for HDBaseT to drive video from server room (from a matrix switch), one for TV connection to network and one for general network access in that room.
As I've looked at raw cable, I came across this product, which is (4) CAT6 cables in a jacket. Seems like that would work really well, allowing me to run a single "cable" to each room and then stripping the jacket and running cables where they need to go in room (all on the same wall). Here's a link to the product: http://www.3starinc.com/structured_home_network_cable_4_x_cat6.html
I'm curious if any of you have experience with that approach, or with that particularly company?
2) As I'll locate the AVR for my main living room in the wiring closet, I'll need to run a cable to drive my subwoofer. Today I have it running via a simple RCA cable (5' run) from the AVR to sub, but now we're talking about probably 40'. I've heard some discussion of using coax for that - but wasn't sure if you could terminate coax with RCA ends or if I'm missing something there.
Thanks in advance for your help and opinions!
Jeff
First, thanks for all the excellent info in the forums. It's been a tremendous help in getting my head around an upcoming "new house" project.
We're building a new place - and while I've done some "house wide" audio in the past, this time I'm going to take on a much larger scope that will include video, audio, network, cameras, motorized shades, home control, etc.
I've been looking at wiring options and was hoping to get input/clarity on a couple of questions.
1) I'm planning to run 3-4 CAT6 cables into each room that will have video. I'll use one for HDBaseT to drive video from server room (from a matrix switch), one for TV connection to network and one for general network access in that room.
As I've looked at raw cable, I came across this product, which is (4) CAT6 cables in a jacket. Seems like that would work really well, allowing me to run a single "cable" to each room and then stripping the jacket and running cables where they need to go in room (all on the same wall). Here's a link to the product: http://www.3starinc.com/structured_home_network_cable_4_x_cat6.html
I'm curious if any of you have experience with that approach, or with that particularly company?
2) As I'll locate the AVR for my main living room in the wiring closet, I'll need to run a cable to drive my subwoofer. Today I have it running via a simple RCA cable (5' run) from the AVR to sub, but now we're talking about probably 40'. I've heard some discussion of using coax for that - but wasn't sure if you could terminate coax with RCA ends or if I'm missing something there.
Thanks in advance for your help and opinions!
Jeff