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Questions about cabling a home theater
Posted by Pasqual [IP: 192.207.123.2] on September 15, 1999 at 19:43:52
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I am about 3 weeks away from having my house delivered (It's a modular) and I want to go in ahead of time and wire the entire house for network (cat5), cable (RG6), and home theater (S-video & speakers). I have all of the network faceplates, ports, and cabling, and I'm going to go buy a couple hundred feet of RG6, and speaker cable from Home Depot. I have a bunch of questions though:1) In the basement, I'm going to have 2 cable splitters just in case one day I get direct TV and still want cable also. From each splitter, I'll do a home run of RG6 to each room on the 1st floor. from each basement splitter, I'll send a run to the attic, then placing splitters on each and running coax from each splitter to each room. Is this an acceptable way to do it?
2) Anybody know who makes good cable splitters, and who sells them?
3) For my family room (AKA home theater) I need to run speaker cable to my wall mounted front, and rear speakers. Should I use a continuous piece of speaker cable from amp to speaker, or install faceplates with banana, or screw connectors at either end and use short patch cables from components to the wall?
4)I'd prefer straight cables because it would be cheaper than buying all of those faceplates, connectors, boxes, and cutting holes in my new walls, any comments?
5) I have 2 10" amplified subwoofers, should I place one in the front of the room and one behind the couch, both in front, or something else?
6) If I'm going to place one subwoofer behind the couch, it will be about a 20' run. Can I use RG6 with RCA male ends as a line level cable to carry the sub signal?
7) Will there be a problem with the front sub having an 8' line level cable connected to it, and the rear sub having a 20' cable? I apologize if these questions are tough to follow, let me know if you need more info! Thank You
Pasqual
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