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Advice on my proposed home cinema
Dear Group, a couple of days ago i posted a thread entitled "New Television Totally Confused!" and got some excellent advice from you chaps, but now i have a couple more questions.
I've got a good idea now of the set-up i need, and some recommendations of kit from you, namely a Yamaha RXV361 (AV Receiver) and Yamaha NSP110 (5.1 speaker package). I've read and studied where to place the items and i can get the 3 front speakers and the sub woofer in the recommended positions. One rear speaker is also ok. Trouble is, my room is "L" shaped with my favourite chair on the external angle of the "L" if you know what i mean. The effect of this is, that one rear speaker will be almost twice as far away as the other. Does that scupper the whole plan or can i turn up the volume of that speaker to compensate? Also SWMBO doesn't want to see any cables, which is no probs cos i can hide them under the carpet. The rear speakers will be best on stands i think, and with that in mind i have a cunning plan if such a thing is possible. To allow for spring cleaning and decorating as such like i wondered if it's possible to terminate the speaker wires in a little surface mounted box on the skirting board with some sort of jack plug fitting so that the actual speaker wire coming out of the stand can just be unplugged and moved if the occasion arises. Is there such a fitting available chaps? Also, (and nearly finished) SWMBO doesn't like the colour of your speaker recommendation! Apparently silver or grey doesn't "go" with the lounge (I've never understood this "go" concept myself) So, can you recommend a reasonably priced set of speakers in Black please? Thanks for your patience, much appreciated. |
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You can get speaker cable binding posts:
http://www.futureshop.co.uk/speaker-...sts-p-804.html You can probable get them cheaper from somewhere like CPC (or possibly maplin?) You really need your speakers to be equal distance, any chance of posting a sketch of the room? If I'm reading it right, your room is like this: Code:
| LF-------C--------RF| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |_______________ | | | | | | | | | | LR-------------------------------------------RR Code:
| LF-------C--------RF| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |_______________ | | | | | | | | | | LR--------------------RR----------------------- believe me its worth nagging / sulking to get the speakers in the right place... Just with I'd tried harder to get my LCD wall mounted - as she later told me she was close to giving in
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Hmm... Well these Kenwood speakers are both low priced and black. I haven't heard their performance, so couldn't comment on that.
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/6209...fichetechnique If you scroll down the page you can also order your speaker cables on the same page. Measure the distance of your cable runs and then add 10% on, just in case. I'd agree Maplin will probably have a cheap solution for terminating your cable runs on your skirting board. |
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Thanks very much. Yes the room is shaped very much like your line drawing and my chair is where your solid line is, on the angle of the room. Trouble is, where you suggest the speaker goes there is a wall unit almost he length of that wall between 2 windows. I did think of placing it on a shelf on the unit but i doubt that idea would go well. Possibly where i got stuck is thinking that the speaker needs to be directly facing the back of my chair. I could put it at the end of the unit but that would be at an angle to my chair although it would then be in alignment with the other one i guess. Thanks for the link to the binding plate but that's rather large and entails sinking a box into the wall. The sort of thing i was thinking of was rather like a tiny surface mounted telephone extension box, you 've seen the sort of thing i'm sure, no bigger than a box of matches, preferably with a jack plug outlet.
Thanks very much |
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Something like this perhaps, only with a jack-plug outlet of some kind:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...C=SO&U=strat15 |
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The link below will take you to some good but cheap Banana Plug terminations, only £3.39 !
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPEAKER-WALL-C...QQcmdZViewItem |
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