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If you can afford it cat7 is the way to go.
1. Yes. And 2 ethernet ports per room.
2. Cisco Gigabit ethernet switch with as many ports as you need
3. Don't know, I only have vintage B&O
4. Don't know this either.
Rather than chose a specific cable type, why not consider installing ducting so that you can pull new cables through to the rooms enabling you to change the wiring in the future - I assume that the house will last longer than Cat 7!
The house I currently live in is rented and has ducting from the attic space down to each room, making it very easy to insert (in my case) ML and MCL cabling. Being a single storey helps, but in most new houses it should be possible to put ducting in at least some key locations, perhaps to/from TVs or the main AV sources. If speaker locations are firm, then permanent cabling (PL or Cat7) may be appropriate but just for these.
(Edit: Just noticed date of original post - may be too late!)
Guy:(Edit: Just noticed date of original post - may be too late!)
Ditto that ! Having access to cable runs in all your rooms is the way to go. Unless you are very good/lucky its hard to plan every rooms eventual use as life is just like that. if you must run more than you need as in the long term its cheaper and easier to be looking at it than for it.
Its a fantastic advantage to have all your cables going to one point as opposed to daisy chains running in all directions.
Will move to my new house in a few months and have the same questions, although with different equipment: 3 BV 7-xx, 1 BeoPlay v1, BM5/BS5, BS3000, BL3500, BL5 & various speakers + STB decoders & BRD players.
So you strongly recommend CAT7 to link everything together and for both audio and video. Was thinking to use wireless for some of the 'audio only' rooms, but my dealer argued against it claiming that it is very unstable. Can anyone confirm?
Is there a possibility and/or an interest in using an optical fiber cable instead of CAT7 with B&O equipment? Was thinking about the future.
Thanks for your input.
if you can afford it cat7 is the way to go.
Is anyone using CAT7 instead of coax to connect to link TVs?
Just wondering if you can use CAT7 for everything?
Griebel - these days wireless is extermely stable and the latest access points coming out are 1gb 802.11ac. My experience is that many dealers are unfamiliar with it, and at least here in the US, they have a poor setup in their stores using older consumer grade solutions (Linksys or equivalent). if you invest in a business grade access point (Cisco, Aruba as opposed to Apple), you may be able to save pulling CAT cables into rooms where it is not needed. Besides, you will need to set up a wireless network in any case to support your IPADs, laptops, etc. Might as well piggyback everything that needs connectivity onto the same network.
BV11-55, BS9000, BL1, BL19, Transmitter 1, Beo4, Beocom 6000, BeoTalk1 200, Sennheiser HD600, McIntosh MHA100