Nice setup, Bill! You'll be able to tweak that system til the cows come home.
If you don't mind my asking where and how did you pick up the knowledge to go so deeply into multi-room or whole-house audio systems? As you know, this stuff is mostly proprietary and usually one-stop shopping for rich folks, so the companies that deal in the systems are pretty close-mouthed about how they work and especially how to interface 3rd party gear to their stuff. Nice to make your acquaintance, BTW.
Thanks awillia6, as to knowledge about structured wiring, I`m self taught in electronics(no mentor) starting in 1974.
I had already had pairs(L/R) of RG 58 stranded center for L/R audio run from/through the back wall of my living room rack system from 1995 with a high performance(at the time) stranded center 75 ohm cable for composite video to 3 bedrooms + my converted garage to repair shop so my rack could feed audio & video without having to buy CD players, tuners for each location.
The rack became the Octopus` head end, and the low rent channel 3/4 crap was not even considered.
And with a 12` big dish with RF remote high end receiver I could control/watch the channels from any room that I had a TV/stereo in.
But doing that was not without chasing ground loops and the performance limits of composite video picture quality.
So I started seeing in 2009 MCM catalogs that had Belden Ethernet( Media twist/Video twist) offerings in them with A/V baluns, as well, so that got me thinking more and more about it and I researched HQ baluns.
And in 2010 I decided to buy 5 1000 ft. rolls of Media twist(4 blue &1 black) and over a 100 RJ 45 color coded snap in jacks old work boxes, wall plates, ect. after carefully figuring what I might need for now and in the future for signal distribution.
After weeks of looking at products on various sites and their specs, then ordering all..
I contacted my local A/V store whom I had been doing business with since 1987 and talked with them about running/connecting up all the cabling for me.
If I wasn`t partially paralyzed(left side hemi paresis) I would have, with the help of a friend, pulled/terminated the structured cables myself.
I had more of a learning curve with multi-room distribution of 1080P @ 24 HDMI with it`s paranoid HDCP/hand shake issues(an whole `nother subject, with nobody to turn to for knowledge/experience that I knew) than anything else later on when I brought that signal into one of the video Cat 6 E lines after going to active V~UGA which instead of using/needing two Cat cables passively w/baluns, the active required only 1 cable so there was now a capability for 1 cable active HDMI !!
I `effin hated/distrusted HDMI("
Hopelessly
Dependable
Media
Interface" early on(circa 2013, as did my local Best Buy A/V manager with his multi-flat screen HDMI fed store displays when I commented to him my multi-flat screen HDCP issues !!
One TV, one player: that`s easy peasy, outside of that, an "Adventure in tricking/fooling DRM/HDCP frustration" !!
But I know the procedure now(cussing and quantities of alcohol were my close friends in the early stages) HAHAHAHA !!
Mercy Sakes Alive !! More thread crapping by me..
Anyway that`s a synopsis Sir .on my whole house hardline adventure..
Take care.
Kind regards, OKB