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My house is currently under construction. The brick walls are up and I'll soon be meeting up with the electrician. Plasterboards aren't up yet. I was thinking now was the time to prepare for any extra wiring or audio setup, before it's too late. Set up speaker cable in the walls and behind the TV to hook up any extra speakers. I hate wires, and because of that I currently do not have a 5.1 setup. I looked into wireless a while back but wasn't too impressed at the time. I'm not an audiophile, a $300 system at my local store sounds great to me. I don't care about woodern knobs or audiophile brands or anything. Bose or Sony or anything sounds good to me (sorry). If I had to chose, design wise, I really like columns or towers. Not little satellites. I definately want - at the front - 2 big columns. The problem is my living room is in the corner of a large area that also contains dining room and kitchen, and I just can't imagine how to prepare for a 5.1 setup. There is nothing behind my "couch" and therefore don't know how to deal with rear speakers. Here's what the living room looks like:   The only thing I've come up with for the moment is rear cieling speakers. I don't know much about them, but I read they exist and while some people talk about bad sound distribution I'm guessing it won't bother me. So I'm thinking: buy an amp, 2 towers for the front, a sub and special cieling speakers for the cieling. I guess they'd go behind the couch. Does anyone have any advice or opinions on this ? I'm totally open to something else. I don't want to spend too much money, and again I'm no audiophile, I just don't want to miss out on an opportunity to wire up my living room for almost free. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas !
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| # ? Feb 23, 2013 13:05 |
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| # ? May 23, 2013 10:31 |
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If anyone needs to "see" better, I made a virtual visit of the living room I made in SH3D. http://mvzen.com/dev/maison3D
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| # ? Feb 23, 2013 13:07 |
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Put the rear speakers in the ceiling. If you want a really clean look, you could put the fronts in too. The only thing that is kind of tough to get in the wall is an active sub. I switched from big Paradigm front towers to in-wall and can't really complain. http://www.monoprice.com/products/s...109&cp_id=10837
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| # ? Feb 23, 2013 14:51 |
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FYI, look at smurf tubes. Those are blue (they also make orange) Carlon conduit tubes that go behind drywall. You can then feed new cables in there if you want to change things, or wiring stuff changes in the future. That way, you won't need to mess up the drywall while getting to the wiring. Slap an outlet cover over this, and just pop it off whenever you want to change wiring. Leave a pull-through cable/line (like strong fishing line) in the tube. Then, you tie the pull-through to your new wire, and a replacement pull-through. Pull the original pull-through out, and you've just added a new wire behind your drywall.    Here is somebody who used smurf tubes for their home theater. Just browser search for "smurf" and you'll see what they did. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1168905/i...pstairs-theater particle409 fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2013 around 18:18 |
| # ? Feb 23, 2013 18:15 |
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You will want to do speaker wire with keystones/wall plates. (The blue conduit looks handy also). Have the electrician pull speaker wire runs to the ceiling speaker locations. You can also do in-wall fronts if you want, If you want to go cheap, these ceiling and wall speakers get good reviews provided you use them in combination with a decent subwoofer: http://www.monoprice.com/products/s...109&cp_id=10837 You could do 2 in ceiling, and 3 inwalls just above your tv. If you dont want in walls for the fronts, I would suggest going to the home audio system thread, in the first post is ingredients for good setups in order of price.
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| # ? Mar 8, 2013 03:13 |
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| # ? May 23, 2013 10:31 |
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If you want to put towers in the middle of the room instead of in-ceiling speakers, you can just use a floor box like these: http://www.newworldproaudio.com/STA...BOXES_c_72.html
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| # ? May 1, 2013 20:24 |
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