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	Subject - Whole House Audio/Soround Sound Mike Delaney We are starting to install more speaker wiring in homes...like whole house audio...where you would have one reviever and volume controls in different bedrooms to ceiling speakers. There are basicly to systems as I'm aware..the analog system, and the digital system. Does anyone out there know the difference, or the advantages of one over the other?? I've installed a couple of ABUS systems which are digital..and all the components are expensive, and the wiring is CAT5 to the VC, and speaker wire to the speaker. Analog is a 4-wire speaker wire to a VC, and then speaker wire to the speaker. JimmyDee I've always hired it done. Maybe you should consider expanding your business to include a low voltage tech and cover your questions that way. Jim jagerbombme i've installed one abus system in my cousins house. i think the benefit with the digital and using cat 5 is it leaves no stress on your amplifier. maybe with the other it's using watts off the reciever. i don't know much more about this subject but the ABUS rocks :) they are expensive though you could just leave it up to the customer what he wants to install though. you could run spkr wire from the reciever location to every room and put master jacks where entertainement system goes and just basic jacks in other rooms. and leave them put a master switcher at they're reciever to avoid blowing their amps. but if they want abus technology, they gotta pay for it. abus is very nice stuff. Mike Delaney jagerbombme, Do you do residential new construction often? Do you install anyother types of low voltage wiring?? (Networks, cameras, etc,)