I have been doing this for years, even before Home Theater became a mainstay in the market. I started out purchasing Monster cable by the roll from my local store and just used bare wire when the receivers had only clips on the back. Then came 5 way binding posts and banana plugs and spades, I now purchase wire from Monoprice by the roll (white, in-wall 12 gauge) and vola I have great sound on my system. The system consists of Yamaha RX-v475 receiver, Polk Audio TSi200's, CS20, OM3's (rear), Fluance AVBP2 (Surrounds), and a Sunfire SDS8 subwoofer on a Auralex Grandma pad. I listen mostly to Jazz recorded in FLAC Lossless format from the master recordings, or from LP on a U-Turn Orbit table. This works for most anything out there, from movies and TV shows in 5.1 or 7.1, to music in any format from mp3 to AAC and Flac. I have a Yamaha BD-S71 Blu-ray player but have not used it much due to all my files are stored on an external 3tb WD Cloud, using an ACER Tower computer with JRiver 20 to run all files.