On April 1, 2014 at 14:55, Fred Harding said...
Last comment.
Use the 16-2 as a pull string for a cat 5 e wire and use baluns to send the audio signal over if it's consumer unbalanced. If it's balanced, yank a 18 2 shield and drain.
Use the cable as a pull string to pull a Cat5, but I'd use the Cat5 for Cobranet and get as many channels of audio you may need to the other end and as a bonus you get Ethernet back to the head end for control. Matter of fact, if you use Cobranet, you can tack on to their existing IP network provided they carve out a dedicated VLAN for you. You could plug the gear into the existing data drops convenient to wherever you need to be.
You would install a Biamp AudiaEXPI-4 to give you four line level balanced inputs located at the head end, into an Ethernet switch, Cobranet over Cat5 to a AudiaFlexCM with 6 PA2 amplifier cards, into two Crown XFMR8 70V transformers, feeding your 11 zones.
Surely you have room for 4RU of gear somewhere at the far end of the conduit using a vertical wall mounted rack like the Middle Atlantic SPM4.
