slamking18 said:
Im not sure I fully understand your question... IMO, I think these plates are about as professional looking as it gets and the reason I am wanting this instead of the connector plates is because they do not make a wall plate that has the connectors needed for a 6.1 setup with a coax sub line. Secondly, any time you end a run with a connector, there is degradation. Probably not enough to ever notice, but there is some. I dont understand why you say I cant relocate speakers at will... One can just as easy as if there were connector plates. Also, I am only wanting to use this "nose" plate where all of my cables come out of the wall at the receiver. At the speakers, I am going to buy blank plates and just drill a tiny hole in them for the line. There is no chance of cracking the blanks if you get the good quality nylon ones that any electrical supply house will carry. You only have to worry about the crap ones you buy at Lowe's or Home Depot.
OK. Now that I understand where you want this plate, behind the receiver, yes, that will not affect any speaker relocation.
This plate to me looks like a setup in a commercial place/office where looks is not that important, even behing a rack, which is fine. I much prefer the cleaner looking plates.
You can always have larger electric box in which you can mount two or three devices that have the speaker and RCA type connections.
As to signal loss, you may need a laboratory grade measuring instrument to find that loss. Certainly not audible or measure with ordinary instruments. If you are worried about losses, you better have one continuous wire from the receiver to the speakers, or better yet, powered speakers witht he amps built in?
