Decorating our Lounge - any cables I have missed?

[heisthegaffer]

Hi all, I'm re-decorating our lounge and I have drawn up a list of what I need to include:-

speaker cable for 5 speakers plus outdoor and kitchen speakers - from Amp
3 x sub cables, 1 for outdoor 2 for the lounge in different places in case I need to move them
HDMI cable to TV and one to PJ too
Power cable to TV and to PJ plus 12v trigger cable in case I ever get an electric screen
Network cable to TV in case I ever get a smart TV
2 x USB cable to TV to mount a webcam for skyping plus one spare
I will be using homeplugs from the router into a switch for Amp, Bluray, TV, PS3, NAS, Sat/freeview box etc
Power and signal cable for TV to front door camera.

In view of what I will be doing, can anyone think of anything else I need to include?

Also, I need to buy a chunk of speaker cable, prob around 100m so would something like the following in the link be adequate:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mutec-Cable--Speaker-2-5mm...

For the spec and length, is this a good price? Any PH'er do a better deal at all?

thanks

[heisthegaffer]

Also, I will be chasing the walls out for the cables so do I need insulated speaker cable or would this be sufficient:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100m-Quality-14AWG-Speaker...

I realise this is copper coated rather than pure copper so bearing in mind one of the runs will be about 15m, would this have much of an impact?

[Salesy]

Personally i would also dump 2x coax, optical and another cat 6 just in case.
You may also want to think about things like a Wii sensor bar cable or xbox kinect.


The 2x coax cables would be for TV's with freesat or free view built in.

[warmfuzzies]

I used audioquest Flx ,14/4 and 14/2 under the false floor and into audio connections in the wall for banana plugs to the speakers. Works a treat.

When I remember, I'll post a couple of pics, the boxes were from eBay http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=2...

K.

[sparkyhx]

lots and lots of power sockets and I would possibly up the ante on network cables - everything is networked these days - TV, DVD, Bluray, network TV players such as Youview although you could have just a gigabit switch which would do the job.

also agree with the two coaxial - one for TV and one for possible PVR type thingymybob unless you are going completely online

Edited by sparkyhx on Tuesday 20th May 21:46

[OldSkoolRS]

It won't be that long before we have amps with Dolby Atmos in them (or a similar equivalent) so you might want to run cables to the ceiling/height positions for them. However, having tried 9.2 in my room (and dropped back down to 7.2) I think it might be a bit overkill for home cinema.

[PAULJ5555]

heisthegaffer said:

12v trigger cable in case I ever get an electric screen

What is this? I have an electric Screen (just one from ebay) How does it connect up?

[heisthegaffer]

PAULJ5555 said:

What is this? I have an electric Screen (just one from ebay) How does it connect up?

Well I am not too sure but assumed you coukd buy screens with a trigger input as my previous Yamaha amp had a couple of 12v triggers, presumably for the likes of power amps and electric screens. I am pretty sure from memory they were assignable too i.e it had twin HDMI outputs so if you switched HDMI 2 on for instance it would activate the trigger for the pj screen.

Or maybe I am completely wrong, any experts able to clarify. It was a Yamaha RXV2067 (may have model number slightly wrong).

Edited by heisthegaffer on Wednesday 21st May 17:52

[Rick Cutler]

Yes a 12v trigger can lower a screen but you would still need mains local to the screen motor. Screens are heavy and although you can get 12v motors the screens would cost lots more.

[heisthegaffer]

Rick Cutler said:

Yes a 12v trigger can lower a screen but you would still need mains local to the screen motor. Screens are heavy and although you can get 12v motors the screens would cost lots more.

thanks for the clarification, i will lay a mains cable at the same time.

[Toledo TC]

Telephone Cable to connect your Sky Box to?

[Rick Cutler]

Sky boxes have built in wifi now.

[megaphone]

Rick Cutler said:

Sky boxes have built in wifi now.

Or better, an ethernet connection.

[heisthegaffer]

Toledo TC said:

Telephone Cable to connect your Sky Box to?

thanks mate. This actually reminds me that I need to decide what route to go down Freeview or Freesat wise so I will have to lay cables for both until I make a decision.

[Cupramax]

Toledo TC said:

Telephone Cable to connect your Sky Box to?

Cant believe they haven't binned the need for this now that most boxes are web enabled.

[Ultraviolet]

Optical cable to TV to take audio back to amp in case you can't get the b*stard ARC to work?

UV

[mattdaniels]

Don't bother running a phone cable for the Sky box that is not going to be required in future. Make sure there is network there though.

I'd also run pairs of speaker cables incase you want to bi-wire your speakers.

[heisthegaffer]

mattdaniels said:

Don't bother running a phone cable for the Sky box that is not going to be required in future. Make sure there is network there though.

I'd also run pairs of speaker cables incase you want to bi-wire your speakers.

thanks mate