re: Building a home pre-wired for 5.1

If you are wanting to hook your record player up to your home theater and you are needing to buy a receiver to work with that, just know that most receivers with a phono input that also do home theater are going to be pricier than their counterparts without the phono input. Just depends on your budget if that is going to be a concern, but something to look out for. As for in-wall vs others, all depends on what you are looking for. You can get some in-wall speakers that are almost as good as one that isn't, and certainly better than a bose cube speaker.

If you give your budget details then you might get more recommendations...someone suggested the binding posts from monoprice; that's what I would do in the meantime so you're wired and all you have to do is either plug in and mount or cut a bigger hole for the in-wall option.