Cat Distribution system
lily316
26 days ago
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Multi room music distribution system
Comments (4)I am going to place a music distribution system in my home. I had initially decided on the MDS-6A but have changed my mind. I have the MDS-6a in my office and have been pleased with it but the russound system has more features and the lcd UNO-S2 keypad looks really cool. I am going w/ russound CAM6.6. I am putting a 7.1 system in thre family room. We are placing ceiling speakers throughout the house except in ceilings below bedrooms. There are a number of music servers out there but for now I will be using a dedicated PC. I plan to have XM radio, PC, CD player, AM/FM tuner, and audio from the tv as sources. I have an audio guy who is doing the set up/installation. I'm using cat5e cable. A few cool sites for research are: http://www.hometech.com/home/index.html http://www.home-technology-store.com/ http://www.ecoustics.com/...See Moregutter water distribution
Comments (23)PKguy, Here is what you want, if you haven't rigged something up already. barrel tap I bought one last year, but kitchen improvements taking over the backyard kept me from getting my gardening act together. I looked at installing it today, and DH and I decided that it will not work for our application. I splurged on fancy rainbarrels from Gardener's Supply a few years ago and they come with a spiggot to which you attach a small hose with a hose clamp. My backyard one was constantly draining the rainbarrel because it would get knocked out of its holder and turned on. I wanted to install the tap, but because the barrel is a one-piece molded design with top spokes, we cannot get our hands down far enough to install the tap. One problem I have always had with this rainbarrel is that it is not elevated, so the water drains very slowly. You can wait half of forever for it to fill a watering can. I sent for a stand to place it on (we are not very handy here) and hope to have the water pressure improved this year. Madscientist, my concern with your proposed soaker hose system is that you will also have problems with water pressure if you try to use the soaker hose. My soaker hose (attached to the municipal water faucet) seems to need the pressure of a closed system to get enough force to push the water out of the perforations in the rubber soaker hose. I would bet that your gutters would overflow as the soaker hose slowly trickles a bit of water into your garden. I hope your raindrains are working satisfactorily. If not, you might check one of these out and see if you can rig a way to attach it to your gutter supply. drip and soaker systems Here is a drip watering system that may work, you just need to figure out how to divert some downspout water into it. watering ring...See MoreMusic Distribution System and Speakers
Comments (1)Hi Matt, I donÂt have any experience with that system, but I am an owner of an 8 zone/4 source Matrix system. I have used PSB ceiling speakers in my home (retail in Canada, about $200+ each) Some zones I have 4 speakers, in one other I have used only 2 speakers. Here are some ramblings: Key pads are a must have; the Pronto remote is only one of others that may work your system (check out Harmony remotes as well); I am a bit of an audiophile, so I wouldnÂt use ceiling speakers for critical stereo listening in your theatre room, nor would I use ceiling speakers in the theatre room for surround sound effect; ceiling speakers (imo) are a bit too light for good bass effect as well in your theatre room. I donÂt missed the bass in the rest of the house so much; Systems that can draw on more than one source at the same time is great as well. If you have black/brown outs, get a surge protector. Consider a media computer to install within your system; I donÂt quite have 18" of room between floors, but this is the set up that I have: Pink insulation between the floor joists; Air space, about 6"; Then where I have a dropped ceiling , I have more pink (2") on top of the acoustic tiles. This seems to be good sound insulation. The only trouble spot is above the excersise room which is not a dropped ceiling. This is under our walk-in closet, and it seems to rattle quite a bit. This room is drywall ceiling and is screwed right to the floor joists, so the transfer of sound is unfortunately quite good. Hope this helps you out....See MoreDistributed video over RF
Comments (1)You need a video modulator. You can then modulate any video signal to whatever channel you want. You just have to make sure the frequency associated with that channel is clear on the CATV line. This a is were a problem may occur. Most cable systems are hybrid with part of the signals analog and part digitial. In my case 2-63 was analog 64-124 was for digital channels. I used a notch filter to remove channels 64-70 and put back the CCTV as channel 66. This worked well for me since all the TVs it fed only had analog tuners and only received channels 2-63 +66. If I wanted a cable box for the higher channels, I would lose whatever had been broadcast in 64-70 region....See Morelily316
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