Common Church Applications for Audio-Visual Baluns

Churches and houses of worship frequently use audio-visual baluns to distribute audio, video, VGA, DVI, and HDMI signals throughout the sanctuary and greater building.

A) A common application in churches is distributed audio and video, or sending a single source to multiple destinations. Typically, this will be the audio and video from a DVD player or the VGA from a computer sent to multiple monitors located throughout the facility. In such applications, the Intelix AVDA-8 or VGADA-2 is typically used as distribution hub.

B) Another common application in houses of worship is long distance projection; a remote projector displays several video inputs on a screen at the front of the sanctuary. The challenge here is getting the video to the projector without having large, unsightly and expensive cables running all over the floor, walls, and ceiling. Baluns are ideal because they extend the video transmission distance and utilize Cat 5 cabling, which is thin and easy to pull and hide.

C) Audio distribution is another frequent application in churches, whether it be broadcasting audio from a CD player to a remote receiver or transmitting the audio from a microphone mixer back to a recording device.