8
Wiring Your Home for Speakers
Speakers are connected directly to an amplifier using speaker cable. For all behind-the-wall installations,
CL3-rated cable is recommended to comply with the majority of building codes.
In most cases, you will run a 2-conductor speaker cable from the central location directly to each speaker.
See Figure 1.
When connecting two LEFT channel or two RIGHT channel speakers into a single zone, it is possible to
daisy-chain a two-conductor cable from the first to the second speaker. See Figure 2.
If a pair of speakers will NOT have its volume controlled by the zone’s variable output (using the app and/
or LyncTouch), but instead will be treated as a “sub-zone”, speaker cables should first be run to the in-wall
volume control location before continuing to the speaker location. In this situation, a 4-conductor cable
will often be run to the volume control location (in place of two separate 2-conductor cables): 2 of the 4
conductors are for the LEFT speaker and 2 conductors are for the RIGHT speaker. From that location, a
separate 2-conductor cable is run to each speaker. See Figure 3
Note: A room with surround sound (e.g. 5.1, 7.1, Atmos, etc.) will require a home theater receiver which
has its own built-in amplification and multiple source inputs. For this reason, it is not typically set up as a
primary zone (with variable volume) on the whole-house audio system. However, it is possible to connect
the fixed (volume) output of a zone on the Lync controller to a stereo input on the home theater receiver. In
this arrangement, you use the amps in the home theater receiver to power the speakers instead of using
two channels on the multi-channel amplifier and volume is controlled by the home theater receiver.
It is also possible for sources connected to the home theater receiver to be shared with the whole-house
system. For these two reasons, it is often a good idea to establish your central location in close proximity to
the home theater receiver, or run a Cat cable between the two locations. Baluns can be added to the Cat
cable allowing sources to be shared between systems.
AMPLIFIER
1
2
+
_
2
AMPLIFIER
1
2
+
_
2
OR
Maximum of TWO 8 ohm speakers per amplifier channel
AMPLIFIER
L
+
_
R
Typical wiring for speakers without an “In-line”
volume control
AMPLIFIER
L
+
_
R
Typical wiring for an “in-line” Volume Control
Note: This connection is only used when independant
volume control within a subzone is required
.
Controller
Typical wiring of a keypad
(Cat5e or Cat6)
RJ45
RJ45
Typical wiring of a Source Input Panel
Cat5/Cat6
AMPLIFIER
1
2
+
_
2
AMPLIFIER
1
2
+
_
2
OR
Maximum of TWO 8 ohm speakers per amplifier channel
AMPLIFIER
L
+
_
R
Typical wiring for speakers without an “In-line”
volume control
AMPLIFIER
L
+
_
R
Typical wiring for an “in-line” Volume Control
Note: This connection is only used when independant
volume control within a subzone is required
.
Controller
Typical wiring of a keypad
(Cat5e or Cat6)
RJ45
RJ45
Typical wiring of a Source Input Panel
Cat5/Cat6
AMPLIFIER
L
+
_
R
Typical wiring for speakers (without an “In-line”
volume control)
Figure 1
Figure 3
Figure 2
