[mythtvnz] OT: Cat5e sharing phone and audio - any issues?

[Richard]

I have tried audio on cat5e with poor results.

First, I just stuck RCA plugs on the end, sound was good but there was too
much noise on it (buzz and got some ethnic AM radio station quietly in the
background. I could tune to other stations by moving the cable around, but
not get rid of all of them)

Then I got some baluns, like you use to send CCTV over cat5e - sound was
awful - lost all the bass and the treble was down a lot, so it ended up
sounding like an old am radio. 

There are active devices to make it balanced, or I could get some proper
audio gear with balanced in and out on a canon plug, but both solutions cost
more money then simply not bothering with audio in the kitchen.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-admin@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-admin@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Matt Poff
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:32 AM
To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: [mythtvnz] OT: Cat5e sharing phone and audio - any issues?

Hi,

Am re-gibbing a couple of bedrooms in the house and thought it might be 
a good opportunity to throw some extra wiring in the walls. I'm thinking 
of running two runs of Cat5e from each outlet to a hub location in the 
basement.

One cable will be used for Gigabit ethernet (for future high def video 
streaming to Myth Front Ends) and the other I'll split to carry phone 
and 2-channel analogue audio (can't afford to run optical cable, don't 
have home theatre yet and suspect I never will in the bedrooms so 
2-channel is fine).

Is anyone using a similar setup and if so what milage are you getting? 
My only concern is that there might be some interference between the 
audio and phone signals in one cable - is that likely?

I thought about running some Sat cable as well but with the 
MythServer/FrontEnd solution I doubt I'll ever need it. It's quite clean 
if I only have to run all broadcast TV feeds to one location in the 
house and then use data to carry them elsewhere.

Does this sound like a good approach?

Cheers,
Matt

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