drvnbysound
Senior Member
I've wired ~10 SMCs, but have typically constrained them to Category, coaxial, and/or intrusion types (22/2, 22/4, 18/2) of wire. I'm coming up on a couple weeks of vacation and am looking for solutions to possibly terminate speaker cabling inside the SMC (with a scoop-type pass-through to get wiring to the end equipment) as a sort of patch panel as opposed to doing the standard audio wall plates... mainly to reduce the amount of locations wiring will have to come out of the wall.
Not 100% sold on this idea yet, but I've been searching for SMC based products suited for audio/speaker cabling and haven't come across anything specific yet. Has anyone else seen or used anything other than terminal strips/blocks?
The closest thing I've seen so far is: http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ProductDetail.jsp?partnumber=47600-QPB§ion=39632&minisite=10251
Which provides (12) QuickPort slots. In which I could then place QuickPort binding posts: http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/SectionDisplay.jsp?section=39143&minisite=10251
But this just seems to waste a LOT of space as that's a half-width solution and would only accommodate 6 speakers. I'm looking at doing 5.1 in our living room + 6-zones of Whole Home audio. So with the solution above, I'd have to get (3) of them...
Not 100% sold on this idea yet, but I've been searching for SMC based products suited for audio/speaker cabling and haven't come across anything specific yet. Has anyone else seen or used anything other than terminal strips/blocks?
The closest thing I've seen so far is: http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ProductDetail.jsp?partnumber=47600-QPB§ion=39632&minisite=10251
Which provides (12) QuickPort slots. In which I could then place QuickPort binding posts: http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/SectionDisplay.jsp?section=39143&minisite=10251
But this just seems to waste a LOT of space as that's a half-width solution and would only accommodate 6 speakers. I'm looking at doing 5.1 in our living room + 6-zones of Whole Home audio. So with the solution above, I'd have to get (3) of them...