Best Wall plate hookups

flldtt
flldtt Posts: 24
edited November 2009 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
What are the best wall plate hookups for my LSi's? Banana plugs or spades? Anyone have a good wall plate website? Thanks in advance for any help.
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited November 2009
    Wall plate's for speakers usually consist of 5-way binding posts, and those accept both spade/banana plugs. You can also use bare wire if you really wanted, just thought I'd add that for ya.

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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited November 2009
    You can see my setup here: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1203280&postcount=17

    I used banana plugs for cable mobility, but these wall plates also accepted spades or bare wires. I bought all wall plates from monoprice.com (http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10425).


    Here are a few more pics:
    • Behind TV: using the Monoprice "Recessed Low Voltage Cable Wall Plate WITH Recessed Power", running additional romex from the bottom power outlet so that I can connect the TV's power cable right from behind.
      http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2788/4148123734_810aaf5459_o.jpg

    • Speaker wall plates: notice the front left speaker wall plate: I bought a 3-speaker plate because originally I was thinking about combining the plate for all 3 front speakers. Finally I unscrewed one of the banana-plug port and screwed in the little RCA port for subwoofer that I took out from another 5.1 wall plate. The below picture showed the remaining holes, but later I used some white tape to mask them. It looked prety nice and clean.
      http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/4148114130_d2bbc7b0be_o.jpg

    • HDMI - coaxial - 5.1 speaker wall plates on the other side of the wall (the coaxial plates was drilled an additional hole to run cat5e and infrared cable :D):
      http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/4148114446_9130b57e66_o.jpg

    Monoprice got great products at great pricing. I really love that site :)
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  • flldtt
    flldtt Posts: 24
    edited November 2009
    thanks Dmara. Checking it out right now.
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