Author: mrvideo audio Company: mrvideoaudio Region: new construction wiring Website: www.mrvideoaudio.com Memorable Quote 1: surround sound installation Memorable Quote 2: commercial audio video installations Author Comment / Biography: Bringing music into every room isn’t the complex, high-cost project it was several years ago. Now, thanks to simplified systems, you can easily install speakers and remote control access throughout your house for a modest cost. We’ll tell you what to buy and show you how to run the wires and mount the speakers and controls. The rest is simple plug-in hookups. The whole-house audio system we’re showing in this article uses a technology called A-BUS. A-BUS technology uses a standard Cat-5e cable (four-pair communication wire) to carry all the signals from a central source. The wires carry audio signals to each room, where they’re amplified to speaker-level audio by the keypads. In addition to amplifying the sound signals, the keypads transmit infrared remote control signals back to the audio equipment source. Anything you can do with your source equipment’s remote control, you can also do from any room that has a keypad. With this system, the audio source chosen from any one room plays in all of the rooms. Systems that allow you to play different audio sources simultaneously are significantly more expensive and complicated to set up, and we won’t deal with those in this article. A-BUS components are available from many manufacturers. The Channel Vision kit we purchased includes speakers and controls for four rooms and cost about $1,000. You’ll also need Cat-5e cable, speaker cable and a few other parts that we’ve listed in the Additional Information section below. Keep in mind that you won’t get “rock the room” amplification like you would with powerful amps, but it’s plenty loud enough for average listening. The hardest part of this project is running the wires without tearing up walls and ceilings. If you live in a single-story house with open floor joists over the basement or crawlspace or if you have easy access to the attic, then fishing the wires will be straightforward using the techniques we show in Photos 3 and 4. In this situation, you’ll come close to finishing a four-room installation in a weekend. But two-story homes and homes without basements or attic access present unique wire-fishing challenges. You may have to spend a little more time fishing wires and patching walls and ceilings. You’ll need a drill and 3/4-in. spade or auger bit to bore through framing members. An electrician’s fish tape ($12 to $15) is handy for pulling wires through the walls (Photo 4). Connecting the equipment is straightforward and only requires a few tools. You’ll need a scissors or side-cutting pliers to remove the cable sheathing and trim the wires. Buy a punch-down tool ($4 to $6) to press the wires onto the punch-down blocks (Photo 7).You’ll also need a wire stripper ($12) to remove insulation from the speaker wires.

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