Unless I am wrong Touch will do digital volume control, you erase some bits to lower the volume. I use the old-style SB3 set to volume=100% and through its jack port I control my amps for volume up/down with the IR Blaster plugin. So I use full digital resolution all the time. I don't think IR Blaster works with Touch but I may be wrong.
I don't understand the "cat5 splitter" thing you mention. If you have a single network a single cable will do up to the patchbay. If you intend to use multiple networks at the same time then you need to connect something to the patchbay. It could be a router but I think the best solution would be to use a switch that can handle VLANs. Virtual lans give you multiple virtual links over a single cable. Defining VLANs gives you the same effect as running additional sets of cables throughout the site. The SB players cannot handle VLANs (neither can your favorite printer) but you can configure the switch to make a specific port part of a specific LAN. The mac (since 10.5 AFAIK) is very apt at handling VLANs. I use a 2010 mac mini as my desktop computer in my home office. It is configured to belong to 6 or 7 separate networks (yes, I know ) and it uses a single cable up to a VLAN-capable switch. Configuration is very easy. Just add a network interface in the GUI. -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 3 SB Classic, 1 SB Boom iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeCenter 7.4.2 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: MusicIP Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Find cover art by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple TrackStat, Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88125
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