USB or Optical with wall plates

[jacallery]

Hi I am planning on going from my PC(as source) to an AD (Stello DA100)
whichh is located at my stereo in the next room. I plan on going into the wall
and up and down the wall in the stereo room. I need to use wall plates at both ends to make it look nice for the wife. The distance needed to cover to travel this way is about 30'. I know USB can only carry about 15', so would it work to go PC/USB>USB extender >CAT5/wall plate>Cat5 30' run>Wall plate/CAT5>usb extender>USB>DA100....wow that looks painful.
Or best to go PC/Optical>Optical Wall plate>30'optical cable>optical wall plate>optical cable>DA100. Sonically which is best if both can even be done.

If anyone had any better ideas I am all for it. For the USB extender I would probably use a gefen product.

thanks,
callery

 

[Hanzo]

Not sure if you can even do the USB. I work with computers and printers all the time and don't know about a USB to cat5 converter. Even if you did a homebrew adapter, it will not get you around the max cable length. If I use more than 15' of cable for some data hungry printers, they can suffer data starvation.

Now if you managed to go usb to powered usb hub (maybe in wall) at wall plate, then go < 5 meters to the other wall plate, then another powered usb hub, then to your da100, that may work. Seems pretty painful, tho...

Squeezebox is another possiblity...

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Wouldn't it be troublesome having to go back into the computer room just to change songs anyway?

 

[kipman725]

Max legnth of usb is about 8m in practise. If you want more you have to use a converter.

 

[jacallery]

Thanks for the replies. I would use something like this for usb extention
Gefen.

I don't mind going into the other room to change songs as I usually just put on a whole concert and play it through, and it is a pretty open area between the two rooms, I just can't have wires running through the "open area".
I have thought about the Squeezeboz, but would have to configure my PC wireless, is this much trouble? Also how does the interface on the SB3
work? If you have a large HD(1tb) with alot of different folders is it easy to scan through them on the SB3? For example on my HD each main folder is a
different band name, the subfolder under each band is a specific date of a concert, under each date folder each song is a Flac file. Can these files be seen and played pretty easily on a SB3?

thanks