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Home Theater Component Placement Ideas

I am in the process of building my Home Theater -- but I have a question:-) If I place my Rear Projection right in the middle of my viewing wall and then place a rack to the left or right I am faced with running two speaker cables of differing lengths. I know that I could place the amp somehow in the center/front but now all my interconnects need to be pretty long and that can get pretty costly. Any ideas or should I just reserver myself to getting one cable at 5 feet and another at 10 feet (roughly)?

Thanks for any input:-)
jplenhart
gpalmer
174 posts
 
You do not want to run two different lengths of wire. See the recent "Cable lengths" in cables for the reasons why.

Greg
marsh
43 posts
 
Keep your speaker cables the same length. I have been faced with the same dilema, so what I have done is to coil the excess cable behind my rack. One option that I have been considering for a while is to purchase an AV table/rack to place in front of my RPTV. This would give me center massed storage and a stand for my center channel. If height is an issue for this solution you could have a solid riser built for your RPTV with a tunnel through the center to run cables through.

Just some thoughts.
jplenhart OP
7 posts
 
I am now leaning toward getting two long cables (it will be much trouble to not go this route:-) -- I was thinking I will coil up in a figure eight the short one. I saw that someone posted that this was the correct way to coil it up -- any ideas if this is true?
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