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Can you carry a line level audio over network cable?
crsdawg:
a friend of mine did this very thing in his house without any extra electronics. he ran the signal in the opposite direction you are tho. he wanted to play mp3's, from his computer that was on the other side of the hous, through his receiver. he had an extra network jack so he gave it a shot. from what i understand you want to use your reciever as a source for your jukebox. shouldn't make any difference tho. if he would have asked me before he did it i would have told him the line length would be to far, and maybe to much for his sound card to handle(read damage), but it worked, and sounds pretty good. i'm not so much endorsing this, just giving you my real world experience on the topic. ymmv.
it also sounds like your going to have a longer run, since you will have to patch the to lines together. it's worth a shot, i guess. just be careful. if you find that the signal strength is weak you might be able use some sort of line driver to boost it. i'm sure the device that gearhead was talking about is similar to this.
good luck
Wienerdog:
--- Quote from: crsdawg on May 19, 2003, 02:00:13 am ---from what i understand you want to use your reciever as a source for your jukebox.
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No, the goal is Jukebox/Arcade to Home Theater amp to house speakers. When the family is in bed at midnight, he doesn't want them to miss out on his game of space invaders.
neuromancer:
--- Quote from: Chris on May 18, 2003, 10:47:23 pm ---Got a question for anyone who knows anything about audio....
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How many feet is the cable run? Measure from the box to the patch bay back to the other box? CAT 5 doesn't really have shielding, so you'll probably pick up really bad hum. The ethernet cables probably run together with the electric.
How hard would it be to pull "real" audio cable?
I don't think you'll hurt anything by trying it out (but I don't know for sure!)> If I were going to do it, I would leave the existing system as is, and buy a patch cable to sacrifice. Cut it in half and attach the RCA plugs to the cut ends.
My computer is about 20' from my stereo, and when I want to connect them, which isn't very often, I drag a 30' patch cord I bought at Radio Shack between them.
Bob
Chris:
--- Quote from: neuromancer on May 22, 2003, 11:11:57 am ---How many feet is the cable run?
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Let's see... about 25' for the first run and about 40' for the second run, so about 65' total.
--- Quote ---CAT 5 doesn't really have shielding, so you'll probably pick up really bad hum. The ethernet cables probably run together with the electric. How hard would it be to pull "real" audio cable?
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Well, when I ran the cables, I made sure that the network crossed the electric at right angles wherever possible. That was before the drywall went up, though; based on the way the rooms are laid out, it'll be practically impossible to run audio wire over there now...
--- Quote ---I don't think you'll hurt anything by trying it out (but I don't know for sure!)> If I were going to do it, I would leave the existing system as is, and buy a patch cable to sacrifice. Cut it in half and attach the RCA plugs to the cut ends.
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I think that's what I'm going to try... thank you for your help!
--Chris
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