First attempt at Home theatre.

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

Ok been getting the equipment over the last couple of days, and have finally started installing. Been working on this all day by myself, lifting tv and everything. I know the wires are a mess, and I running out to lowes tomorrow after work to get the rest of the stuff needed to hide everything. I would have drilled holes in the walls and ran it that way but I live in military housing so that was not going to happen. I also have to get more coaxial cable because I very badly misjudged that. Any tips would be helpful, I can work on a car all day but this is new to me.

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[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Bridge to Terabithia

Nice.

 

[TNTR70 10+ year member]

that tv seems kinda high up....are you watching it from the top bunk?....hdmi cables ....no clutter ftw

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

Bridge to Terabithia
Nice.

yes my daughter is watching it lol.

 

[Cravingbass123]

put the sub in the corner of the room and clean those cables up!!

 

[juniorab 10+ year member]

Try spreading your front left and right speakers farther apart. Keep your center channel at roughly (or at least pointed at) the height your head will be at when you are sitting. I usually try and keep my sub in a corner, I usually have the best results with that, but it's not always the case. You may have to play with the positioning of it until you find a happy position.

 

[thaster 10+ year member]

im not into stacking electronics. they need to breath and could get hot damaging other hardware.

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

that tv seems kinda high up....are you watching it from the top bunk?....hdmi cables ....no clutter ftw

it is kinda high but the shelving below it had to be kinda high, my wife runs a home daycare for military families and it has to be a certain amount of inches off the ground because of infants. the bottom shelf needed to be 36 inches from the floor.

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

put the sub in the corner of the room and clean those cables up!!

it is going in the corner, my sub cable was to short. The cables will be covered tomorrow. and whoever said something about the electronics being stacked the dvr will be on top shelf tomorrow when I get some more coaxial cable.

 

[TNTR70 10+ year member]

it is kinda high but the shelving below it had to be kinda high, my wife runs a home daycare for military families and it has to be a certain amount of inches off the ground because of infants. the bottom shelf needed to be 36 inches from the floor.

in that case , figure out a way to keep the little ones from tipping over those front speaker stands

 

[Fender5 10+ year member]

it is kinda high but the shelving below it had to be kinda high, my wife runs a home daycare for military families and it has to be a certain amount of inches off the ground because of infants. the bottom shelf needed to be 36 inches from the floor.

make sure they dont tug on those wires

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

in that case , figure out a way to keep the little ones from tipping over those front speaker stands

already have thought of this wall anchors and military issue zip ties. Also will be taken care of tomorrow, actually I have to take the speaker stands out in the morning before the kids come.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Get better shit.

nG

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

make sure they dont tug on those wires

yes until I get the wire covers tomorrow this is my biggest worry.

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

Get better shit.
nG

the reciever is fine, and I have 700 to spend on the the surround speakers but can't decide what I want and there is not a home theatre store within 50 miles of here to go check anything out.