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Surround sound question
Posted on 10/29/23 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 10/29/23 at 6:00 pm
My house is prewired for 7.1 in my living room and i just noticed the other end of the wires come out to the junction box which is in my hallway closet 3 rooms away.
How in the hell am i supposed to make that work to a receiver behind my tv that connects directly to my TV?
How in the hell am i supposed to make that work to a receiver behind my tv that connects directly to my TV?
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Posted on 10/29/23 at 6:34 pm to dallastiger55
You could put the receiver in the closet and run a long HDMI cable from your TV to the closet and use the eArc port on your TV. Instead of passing video through your receiver, you'll pass audio through your TV. That's assuming there is way to get power to the receiver inside the closet.
That should give you the ability to turn on your receiver and control the volume with your TV remote.
Although personally I would do something like buy more speaker wire, pull the surround and rear surround wire with the new wire attached back to the closet. Then connect all of that to the LCR wires in the closet and pull the whole group from the where they are behind the TV. The old surround and rear surround wires would become your new LCR wires and the new wire you bought would be routed from their current locations, through the closet, to behind the TV.
I don't know if that makes sense. But I'd basically use the existing wires to pull new wires and just have some long runs through the closet for your surrounds and rear surrounds. This all makes sense in my head but is hard to explain. (This is all assuming they didn't staple the speaker wire to studs)
That should give you the ability to turn on your receiver and control the volume with your TV remote.
Although personally I would do something like buy more speaker wire, pull the surround and rear surround wire with the new wire attached back to the closet. Then connect all of that to the LCR wires in the closet and pull the whole group from the where they are behind the TV. The old surround and rear surround wires would become your new LCR wires and the new wire you bought would be routed from their current locations, through the closet, to behind the TV.
I don't know if that makes sense. But I'd basically use the existing wires to pull new wires and just have some long runs through the closet for your surrounds and rear surrounds. This all makes sense in my head but is hard to explain. (This is all assuming they didn't staple the speaker wire to studs)
This post was edited on 10/29/23 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 10/29/23 at 7:54 pm to dallastiger55
Holy hell. Your homebuilder (assuming a new build) is an idiot. I can think of scenarios in massively expensive houses where this would make sense (normally when you have the kind of AV equipment goes in a rack). If you're in Dallas, that may be the scenario, cause that's normally OT rich.
But, fortunately, hiring dudes to pull wire is relatively cheap. Call an electrician/media company, spend $400 to get the cabling (to the hallway closet) moved to behind the TV. If your builder stapled or otherwise secured the cables to the studs, you may end up with a new run and some drywall dust, but if you're buying a home that's prewired for 7.1, you can probably afford it. Unless you like a good level of suck, do not try to use fish tape to do it yourself. Just pay someone to do it, and drink beer and watch.
I hate fishing wire.
But, fortunately, hiring dudes to pull wire is relatively cheap. Call an electrician/media company, spend $400 to get the cabling (to the hallway closet) moved to behind the TV. If your builder stapled or otherwise secured the cables to the studs, you may end up with a new run and some drywall dust, but if you're buying a home that's prewired for 7.1, you can probably afford it. Unless you like a good level of suck, do not try to use fish tape to do it yourself. Just pay someone to do it, and drink beer and watch.
I hate fishing wire.
Posted on 10/29/23 at 7:57 pm to JoeHackett
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(This is all assuming they didn't staple the speaker wire to studs)
But you never find this out until after you try to pull wire with existing wire. Hope for the worst, prepare for the best. You're bringing me back to being in attics in N. LA in college that really sucks.
Posted on 10/29/23 at 8:33 pm to LemmyLives
yeah man my first thought was WTF was the builder thinking?
Im in the Plano area and paid 400k for the house precovid so def not OT rich.
It also is wired to the patio and comes out the closet.
Im in the Plano area and paid 400k for the house precovid so def not OT rich.
It also is wired to the patio and comes out the closet.
Posted on 10/29/23 at 11:02 pm to dallastiger55
How many cat5/6 cables do you have going to your tv location? They likely go to same closet and can do many things
You could use one as an hdmi with baluns for eARC, you could use one for optical audio out to reciever with baluns, you could use one for ir control of up to 4 devices in the closet.
ARC doesn’t require any additional control and is the easiest, but as long as you have a couple cat5/6 going to the closet you can do anything you want without any physical labor
You could use one as an hdmi with baluns for eARC, you could use one for optical audio out to reciever with baluns, you could use one for ir control of up to 4 devices in the closet.
ARC doesn’t require any additional control and is the easiest, but as long as you have a couple cat5/6 going to the closet you can do anything you want without any physical labor
This post was edited on 10/29/23 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 10/30/23 at 12:40 am to dallastiger55
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How in the hell am i supposed to make that work to a receiver behind my tv that connects directly to my TV?
EARC either through a long hdmi cable or Cat 5/6 balun. If your receiver is on your home network (it should be) you can control it through an app and won't need line of sight to receiver
Posted on 10/30/23 at 12:47 am to dallastiger55
I'm guessing I worked in the industry after you, but it was the era I had to lift 40" Mitsubishi Tube TVs onto the top of kitchen cabinets. In Southern Trace in Bossier? I ran zero oxygen cable nine feet up, three feet across, and nine feet down, rather than putting it in the floor. But it was I think $1k a foot. We installed $12k of shite in the 12 year old's room.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 12:36 pm to dallastiger55
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yeah man my first thought was WTF was the builder thinking? Im in the Plano area and paid 400k for the house precovid so def not OT rich.
It also is wired to the patio and comes out the closet.
Are there other wires/ cables run there also?
Any conduit run to this closet?
A centralized AV closet is actually a very nice feature in a house
This post was edited on 10/30/23 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 10/30/23 at 1:11 pm to jennyjones
Is it wired for 7.1 or 5.1.2? If you have the option, 5.1.2 > 7.1
Posted on 10/30/23 at 1:35 pm to dallastiger55
Use a remote control extender and long HDMI from receiver to TV.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 4:01 pm to jennyjones
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A centralized AV closet is actually a very nice feature in a house
Agreed. What other wires are run to the closet and to what locations? There certainly could be wire(s) run to locations where an IR repeater could be utilized.
Women in general hate looking at gear and speakers. Utlizing an A/V closet hides the gear.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 4:12 pm to dallastiger55
are you sure it was for 7.1 and not just a whole home audio system?
Posted on 10/30/23 at 7:50 pm to dallastiger55
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How in the hell am i supposed to make that work to a receiver behind my tv that connects directly to my TV?
Hire someone
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