Home cinema wiring

Feb 15, 2012 45 Replies

No, when I sold in 2008 I told the truth - numerous alterations done without consent. No comeback at all from purchaser. If there had been I would have offered to pay for a periodic inspection confident that all was OK.

Note that there is a Part P consultation out at the moment and scrapping it is not likely to be the result.

I bought myself one of those for Christmas - big improvement over my old Denon amp and lots of inputs so my wiring and switching is much simplified.

Matt

AIUI it has a good DAC so it sounds better than most CD players and all TVs which tend to use cheap DACs. Its also a better place to put the DAC as you want to stay lossless digital until you get close to the speaker. I think its safe to ignore any advice that you want to use the analogue sound out of a tv, etc. if you have a good DAC in the amp, after all the only none digital sources most people have is FM radio with occasional record deck.

One last thing before I let this topic go.

I mentioned that I was planning to put the screen on the chimney breast and I was slightly concerned about heat from the fire.

One way to solve this problem would be to use a projector near the ceiling on the opposite wall, which of course would have big implications for the wiring. Especially as you can apparently now get a wireless model like this...

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thoughts on projectors versus ordinary screens? Bear in mind this is specifically a home cinema setup, not for casual TV watching.

You can, but that link's full of it. Cat5 is rated at 0.5A per conductor, so one cat5 gets you 2A, a pair gets you 4A rating.

NT

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