NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/audio/15548

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Subject: linking audio systems?
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Date: 23 Nov 92 05:21:01 GMT
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I would like some advice on how to link two audio systems.  My current
set-up has a good quality audio system in the living room, and a cheap
system hooked to a vcr and cd player in the bedroom.  I would like to
be able to play the same music is both rooms (and possibly others, if
I ever get around to buying some more speakers).

The vcr has to stay in the bedroom, so my first thought was to move
all the equipment there, and run extension speakers to living room;
but this is obviously less than ideal, since I do most of my music
listening in the living room, and I would hate to run upstairs
everytime I wanted to change a CD or adjust the volume.

I would like to be able to simply select whatever is playing in the
living room as an input to the bedroom system.  What is the best way
to do this?  Is iit possible to distribute the line-level source, from
the living room preamp?  It would have to run at least 50 feet.  What
about running a speaker-level output --- how could that be safely
connected to a line-level input?  I imagine I'd add some resistance in
the circuit --- but how to determine the amount?

Advice greatly appreciated, please email as well as posting --
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---- Henry Kautz

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