I have wired my newly built house with cat 6 cable; several in each main room for AV and data. However, I was reading on one of these forums some months ago that cat5 or 6 could be used, fairly succesfully, as speaker wire - quality isn't too much of an issue, as long as it sounds ok. So, I decided to also mount Cat6 sockets on the walls ready to install speakers to. I've joined my cat cabling all to a central patch panel in my garage and would like to be able to have any device playing on speakers in any room.
My Dilemma
Now I'm trying to send a basic sound signal down them and I get no joy, (I've played about swapping wires). Am I doing something wrong, is there a wiring technique you should use for getting sound over cat5/6? Can sound run from one device to another via a patch panel? Is it just that I'm not kicking out enough power at one end?
Can anyone help?