I'm in the planning stage of finishing our basement and I'm going to be building a theater room in it. I have another post in regards to sound isolation, but this is a different question.
I've seen in some homes they have wall outlets for speaker placement, much like these
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I have a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos setup. For my front main I'll be using a pair of BlueJeans speaker cables, and the centre will probably be close enough to the A/V Receiver to not need to run cabling for. But for the rest, I want to run in-wall speaker wiring. The plates/jacks in the pictures do make it look a lot nicer, but I was wondering about the audio quality of having so many connectors/breaks between the amp and the speaker. It would end up being A/V Receiver > banana plug > speaker cable > banana plug > wall jack > banana plug* > in-wall speaker wire > banana plug* > wall jack > banana plug > speaker cable > banana plug > speaker.
* I believe I've seen some of these plates that the wire can connect directly, so another banana plug wouldn't be needed on each end.
At first glance, thinking about running those lines, you wouldn't really think about all those connectors along the way. But realizing it, I was curious if there would be any effect to the audio quality. Especially since the speaker wire from the A/V Receiver to the wall and the wall to the speaker would more than likely be a different cable than what would be in the walls.
Alternatively, I was wondering about using something like this
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and leaving 2' - 3' slack, and would be more of a direct connect. I know this way would be cheaper, and the other way would look nicer. But I was also wondering about the audio quality to help me make up my mind.