Dealer meeting?

[Wakeman22]

Congrats to WWS.

[Timmy!]

Wow, I got off on a tangent. Sorry guys!

What's funny is that I almost put a Cat 5 connection would work for me too but you still have to run a cable. Cat 5 is pretty easy to run though and you can make it any length you want.

[WakerideN]

NO TIMMY! The next step really should be networked devices or at least cat5 or cat6 connections. I really don't get why this hasn't been done yet. The bandwidth of a shielded cat5 or cat6 cable should far exceed traditional interconnects and it would also be a balanced connection.

I sell Meridian and they have been doing this forever. All of their speakers are active DSP speakers where the signal is kept digital via a cat5 cable all the way to the speaker which has the DSP processor, D/A converter and amplifier all built in.

How cool would it be to have powered tower speakers that run off of a single cat5 from a POE switch?

can I get an ip phone with this setup as well. then I can work form the boat.. and never go to the office!

[Nobody]

From what I've read, my mind has been changed. BT makes sense.

[Nobody]

Wow, I got off on a tangent. Sorry guys!

I do it all the time....no biggie.

[MoneyPity]

I use BT for various things but replacing headunit connections is not one I would use BT for. When using BT to listen to phone or other audio sources it has a tendency to pickup noise sources in the boat. Just my

[houstonshark]

What's funny is that I almost put a Cat 5 connection would work for me too but you still have to run a cable. Cat 5 is pretty easy to run though and you can make it any length you want.

The term 'wireless' is very misleading. This stuff will always need wires. Always is probably a little strong but in some form or another, they will need wires in our systems for a long time; at least for power.

I'm not sure BT is stable enough for these communications. I'm not sure of the bandwidth limitations of BT either. I've yet to hear anything that sounds particularly good. The new WS420 will have BT.

Shielded Cat5 or Cat6 would be awesome in many ways: easy to run and terminate, cheap, high bandwidth and low signal loss.

It's a pipe dream though. No one wants to invest money into that for audio at this level and cable manufacturers would have a cow!