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kucoloco
September 2007
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View profile »Im going to start fixing up my house in a few months, and im looking to do a super clean installation of my home theater equipment. ive seen in the past websites that sell kits, to put cables in walls, or to run cables neatly etc. that sort of thing... not sure what to call it or where to search, so any info, links or suggestions are apreciated.
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John J. Puccio
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The problem is that once it's all installed that way, it looks neat and clean, but the first time you decide to change something, to get new speakers or reconfigure their locations, you have a mess on your hands. I'd set the TV on a stand or shelf or cabinet (where you can move it forward or back to obtain the proper viewing distance, get behind it to service it, etc.), and speaker wiring along the baseboards of the walls.
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That's the one advantage of having it hung up on a wall IMO.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Sep 24, 2008 - CDT 3:43 PM]
John J. Puccio
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That's what my niece says, and it's what my neighbor says, who both have their TVs hanging on the wall. However, neither of them have surround sound. They use their TV's built-in speakers.
But if you have separate speakers, they would either have to be wall-mounted, too, which is never a good idea (think of replacing them some day, ugh), or sitting out a foot or two in front of the television, not a good idea, either, for correlating accurate sound with the images on screen. (How do you even get the speakers high enough so that the sound appears to be coming from the TV screen and not the floor without putting the speakers on really tall stands?) Also, wall-mounting means never being able to move the TV forward or backward or up or down for optimum viewing. It's a matter of your getting it right the first time, or you deal with the trouble later.
So, yes, if you don't trust kids, maybe wall mounting is the answer. Or keep them away from the TV. Or lock down the TV's stand so it cannot tip over. (Same with external speakers on stands, etc. You have to make them child-proof.)
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Falcon01
July 2006
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To each their own I guess and mine certainly does not have to be perfect. Heck I live in an apartment after all.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Sep 24, 2008 - CDT 4:29 PM]
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October 2007
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I now get what you mean...my aunt with her year and a half son (my cousin), came yesterday to visit, and to my surprise, they are staying with us, no problem...
kucoloco
September 2007
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