There are two speakers in the living room and two near the kitchen. There is an outlet with a telephone jack that has no telephone signal. There is another outlet with two coaxial connections but only one has a cable TV signal. Also have a smart box with a signal amplifier with a coax input and output, but nothing connected. An old flier I found said the surround sound was CAT 5. Any ideas on how to hook it up?
2006-10-12 13:55:16 · 4 answers · asked by picopico 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Contact a representative at Best Buy or Circut City.
2006-10-12 14:02:22 · answer #1 · answered by A Lady @ ALL Times 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did this for a living up to a month ago, changed careers. This is interesting.
Is the phone jack actually a cat5 jack, 8 conductor rather than 6 like a phone, just a little wider?
So the two speakers in the living room do they go to a terminal plate where a stereo or TV would be located? Are the two near the kitchen in the same room. For surround sound 5.1 you need Left and right front, left and right rear and a center, the .1 is for a powered sub woofer.
I have not encountered a Cat5 based surround sound system, doesn't mean that one doesn't or didn't exists.
There are Cat5 whole house audio systems. they take the signal from a stereo source convert it to be carried over cat5. Some place in the house would be a low voltage panel where the signal from the stereo would go in to a module that would redistribute it to volume controls via cat5, from there to the speakers via speaker wire. This low voltage panel would likely have phone and TV too. It's what is called structured wiring.
I really can help much without pictures of everything you can think of.
If you have a digital camera and have other questions you can email me pics and ask questions. hogie0101@yahoo.com
2006-10-12 18:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by hogie0101 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they might have just had music going throught the house you need a min of 5 spkrs for true surround sound, cat 5 wires are nto used for surround sound there is a lot of work (from what it sounds like) to make that system complete call a proffessional
2006-10-12 15:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by sevenout7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like they had a server type computer controling all the media not enough info to be positve
2006-10-13 21:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by ck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋