Kitchen wall mount TV with flush speakers?

Kitchen wall mount TV with flush speakers?

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AM-BM

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261 posts

199 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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Hi. Need a bit of advice on the new kitchen system.
Currently running optical off the sky box to my lounge AV system.
I will need to switch sound to hdmi and run cat 6 network to the kitchen
So I can have the Tv linked to my AV receiver.
I'm guessing it will have picture and audio over the Neet Hdmi converter.
I then need to find a decent sound bar that will sit flush under or over the wall
Mounted tv as I we will walk past it and dont want it jutting out.
However it seems all the good soundbars are quite deep (built in subs).

I'm hoping the 2 cat 6 cables will carry picture and sound.

Also the sound bars usually require optical to connect so once the TV takes the HDMI
Signal I can plug the sound bar into the Tv with optical to get sound out if it?

VEX

5,256 posts

245 months

Sunday 31st January 2016
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OK, Firstly, depending on your Sky box, Sky did an update which now puts the surround audio over the HDMI so that bit should be ok.

Then most modern screens have optical out for you to be able to link sound bars.

Hope that puts your mind at ease a little.

V.

six wheels

347 posts

134 months

Sunday 31st January 2016
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I have a similar setup: Sky HDMI out to a matrix, dining room TV takes HDMI from that and outputs via optical to a Cambridge Audio TVB2 (slim, great, wireless sub) while main living room TV takes HDMI from the matrix and ARC's to a full surround amp. Both systems can run in full simultaneously.

Obviously this isn't HDMI over CAT5/6 but one would hope valid once "some" signal gets to your TV.

If you want a slim soundbar (which I guess might dictate a separate amp) I'd recommend the TVB2 if budget permits.

Hope this helps or provides some reassurance.

Cheers, Steve.

jas xjr

11,309 posts

238 months

Sunday 31st January 2016
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Have you considered mounting the speakers in the ceiling?

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

223 months

Sunday 31st January 2016
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AM-BM said:
Hi. Need a bit of advice on the new kitchen system.
Haha, you considered a radio?



Could you not put up a stud wall and mount the screen and sound bar flush?

Or better still just fit in wall speakers?

I did this at our last place, I used a Loewe TV (Sonys have variable outs too on most of their sets) as they have variable outs on them, I then ran the speakers with a small old Cryus amp that was also in the cavity. This meant I only had one remote to deal with, worked well.

Just kept it all extremely neat and sounded great, the cavity asks as a speaker cabinet and they gave off a surprising amount of bass for their size.

They were Kef Ci200s.

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

223 months

Sunday 31st January 2016
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Also, it it not worth waiting till the 9th of Feb to see what the new Sky Q system offers?

MrSparks

648 posts

119 months

Friday 5th February 2016
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Why do you want the TV connected to the lounge system?

Why don't you install a kitchen radio system like this; http://kitchenbathroomradio.co.uk/systemline-e100-...

You can connect your TV to it for TV sound, you can listen to radio with one button press and then you can use the Cat 6 to send the Sky audio/video to the TV for playback over the new system. And you can stream your phone/tablet/computer via bluetooth.

If you're not worried about bluetooth then the E200 is cheaper - http://kitchenbathroomradio.co.uk/kitchen-ceiling-... - it does come with a bluetooth receiver, but it only has one aux input so you can't connect TV and bluetooth at the same time (unless you use a switcher)

Otherwise you'll have to turn your AV receiver on in the lounge to listen to TV in the kitchen.