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  • jazz!
    jazz! Posts: 30
    edited July 2010
    was going to do plates??
    but i have no idea....this is all new to me....
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  • jazz!
    jazz! Posts: 30
    edited July 2010
    i guess i should just say...tell me what i need and what to do, i have no clue!
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  • jazz!
    jazz! Posts: 30
    edited July 2010
    i need to go in the wall as the floor is wood.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2010
    jazz! wrote: »
    i guess i should just say...tell me what i need and what to do, i have no clue!

    Running cables behind the wall to wall plates will certainly be the cleanest looking way of getting all of your cables hooked up.

    But - it does mean more work. And if your dry wall is already up it will be harder to run cables behind the wall.

    You would need to buy cabling and measure out the runs you need from where your AVR will be located to where your speakers will be located.

    Then terminate the cables to the wall plate. You would then need another set of cables to go from the wall plates to your speakers.

    Or....if you think your setup will never change position - you could buy terminated cables and simply run them thru wallplates with cut-outs and forget about wall plates.

    Pros to behind wall cabling:
    *Looks clean

    Cons:
    * does limit you on changing your system location & layout if you want to move things around
    * makes it hard to 'upgrade' cables since you'd have to dig out the cables behind the wall to replace them later

    Of course, if you don't think you are interested in upgrading cables, and if you don't think you'll have to re-arrange your HT layout - inwall cabling is the cleanest.

    [Edit] If you want to leave open the option of upgrading cables with an in-wall installation, I'd get the wall plates with large cutouts. And when you install the cables - leave the pull string attached at one end of the cables. Make sure the cutout is large enough to pull any new cables thru and how big the connectors & cable assembly would be.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2010
    Pssst....you want an Epik Sub?

    There's one on audigon:
    http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?homesubw&1283888810

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • jazz!
    jazz! Posts: 30
    edited July 2010
    ok, im asking a lot here...but could you........when you have a sec, tell me what wire/cable and and plates i need plz. looking at monoprice stuff and have no idea what i am looking at. think i should get 200 ft of speaker wire, 7 plates and mounting brakets, 1 distribution plate with mounting braket, still un sure of sub wire.....when i look the wire up it shows rca from the plate but in wall is coaxial? i an going to wire the ht as a 7.2

    sry for having no clue!
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  • jazz!
    jazz! Posts: 30
    edited July 2010
    Erik Tracy wrote: »
    Pssst....you want an Epik Sub?

    There's one on audigon:
    http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?homesubw&1283888810

    thats a good deal....im going to wait a bit...might make the drive and try and get dual empire !
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