Setting up New System, what wires to run in wall?

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drdawg

Junior Audioholic
Okay so setting up a new system in a new house with a large tv mounted and a receiver below in a unit. I will run 2 HDMI cables, I will a coax and optical wire. There will be a cat 7 jack at both behind the tv and behind the reciever. There will be two sub wires run from the reciever to the two spots of where the subs will be.

Do i need to run anything else from the reciever spot to the TV area?
 
TLS Guy

TLS Guy

Audioholic Jedi
Okay so setting up a new system in a new house with a large tv mounted and a receiver below in a unit. I will run 2 HDMI cables, I will a coax and optical wire. There will be a cat 7 jack at both behind the tv and behind the reciever. There will be two sub wires run from the reciever to the two spots of where the subs will be.

Do i need to run anything else from the reciever spot to the TV area?
What ever you do run conduit. That is an absolute rule. Make sure you have enough and large enough. You can use Tech Tubes which are very cheap and easy to run. Then you can add or change wires easily with snake or tape pulls. Never ever put any audio cable in a wall not in conduit. If you do you will end up regretting it. Any cable can fail, and technology changes. Now it the time to get it right and engineer for whatever the future has in store..

The next and forgotten aspect is your home ethernet architecture. This is almost always abysmal and inadequate in most homes. My advice is to make your main AV room the hub of you ethernet infrastructure.

Tech tubes from AV room chase distributed though out the house. Hard wire beats Wi-Fi any day. So try and have everything that is not mobile hard wired and reserve Wi-Fi for mobile devices.



Main home Ethernet patch bay and hub.



Then you place local hubs at required locations were there are multiple devices with ethernet connections.

For speaker cable grounded steel conduit is strongly recommended. People fail to realize that speaker cables are actually the major source for pick up of RF interference, especially from LED light bulbs and dimmers especially. This makes for improved signal to noise ratio. It happens because speaker cables feed back to the high gain stages though power amp negative feedback circuits.



Time and thought given to these matters now, will save you time and hassle for as long as you are in that home. I can not over stress the importance of getting this right now.
 

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