AV Receiver under stairs, TV in Lounge?

[Andehh]

With a new 1/2 house refurb I am looking at moving all my AV gear under the stairs and just having the TV on the wall and speakers put up.

I have a 15M HDMI cable that will reach from the stairs, into the ceiling then down the cavity into the lounge (pretty much have this in place already to split the skybox into the bedroom) but I am wondering about the speaker cables.

These speak cables will range from 15-25m based on distance + routing round the room from the 'hole in the wall' where the cable routing enters.

Am I likely to suffer any *noticeable* degradation from cables this long? I am not an audiofile and have a very mid-range Mordant Short speaker setup, so am after practical advice! Looking at 12-14 gauge cables.

Thanks

[Andehh]

All good calls, will route in some cat5e and yes, will make sure it's a decent working hdmi cable first.

Thanks

[Andehh]

Sounds promising guys, sort of thing I am hoping to do!

I am looking at the Logitech harmony Touch remote, to enable one remote to then control all my gear. I presume I will need an IR blaster, which I can find in the US (link below) but not in the UK to allow me to control them remotely?

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Blaster-Emitter-Com...




Edit; We had the Marmatek pyramids as well, before we just started using our smartphones to control the sky box. Also worth nothing, with the Pyramids turned on it blocked the remote to my previous tenants Vauxhall Astra. We had to turn them off whenever he came home, so he could lock his car! Obviously using a similar/same frequency.

[Andehh]

kooky guy said:

I've put all my AV stuff in a cupboard to one side with the intention of running additional TVs from the stack via HDMI over Cat5e from the amp.

I really struggled to find a remote control solution and ended up with this (along with a very long extension cable):

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141000879587?_trksid=p20...

It works amazingly well and was dirt cheap too.

My cupboard does get rather warm though, even with everything on Standby. Need to look at some sort of silent forced ventilation.

That's the sort of thing I am hoping for, but would need the receiver on a cable 15m away to run it back to the cupboard with all the AV stuff in? Is this what you mean when you say you have a long extension cable?

[Andehh]

kooky guy said:

Yes, although I think they only guarantee it up to 10m (but I suspect they're just covering themselves). No-one seems to sell anything like this in the UK and what little there is available is really expensive. I was very impressed at just how well this works and it costs literally peanuts. The supplier is very communicative and helpful too.

The alternative might be to use a HDBase-T HDMI over cat5e/6 adaptor. The pair I've just bought to link it all up to the bedroom include an IR receiver and blaster.

Thanks mate, that is sounding ideal to what i am after! How much was the HDbase-T out of curiosity? What setup do you have there.

Additionally, with the Sky Box being split between 3 rooms, I am wondering if it is possible to get 2 x IR blasters (1 for each room) so that sky remote can be used from either room to control the centralised sky box. So for the lounge a Logitech Harmony Remote would control the AMP & Sky box & TV....but from the snug (with no surround sound) a second IR blaster would allow a sky remote to control the sky box & TV.

Then we would just use the Sky App on our phones to control Sky from the bedroom, as we do at the moment.