Ok, someone asked me to start a thread about the install I'm planning for my new system, so I guess this is it, although this is no more than a placeholder post for now.
It's worth bearing in mind that the system doesn't actually exist yet, beyond a deposit on a KRP-500A, but the plan is to match it with the Pioneer SC-LX81 amp, either the 52 or 71 BD player and a 5.1 speaker set, as yet undecided. Anyway I've decided that I'm going to have everything properly installed with all the kit hidden out of the living room and cables run to the speakers. The KRP helps with this as the seperate media box will go under the stairs with short connections from the sources and just the single cable running from the media box to the screen.
This is the "cupboard" under the stairs. For scale that's a full size door I'm shooting through. You can see on the back wall the partially removed plaster-board, the rest of it to the right is coming down as behind that is the living room, where the TV is going, so this area will be open to the living room, as I believe it used to be, up until about 30 years ago when the then owner blocked it in.
This is the "under the stairs" bit, the rack will going in here, positioned to the right to leave room to get round the back of it for cabling purposes. Having spent several hours clearing this area out and taking everything to the tip (the whole room was floor to ceiling with rubbish, including an air-rifle that neither of us have any idea where it came from!), I'm sllightly annoyed that the other half has already taken to lobbing rubbish in here again. That's an old 60 record player on the table incidentally. It isn't mine...
This is the consumer unit on the other wall that I'm going to have a new feed taken off of to power all the gear, I've had a rough estimate of about 100 quid from a sparky for that. I'm going to have the unit boxed in and shelving put along this wall as well for all the DVDs/BDs that I don't actually own yet, to get them out of the living room as well.
That's about as far as I've got so far! this bit will be carpeted and the ceiling refinished as it'll probably need to be opened up to run the cables. Now I'm waiting (still) for the dealer I'm getting the Pioneer stuff from to come over and check out the living room and start drawing up plans but this might have to wait even longer as the missus' daughter is due to give birth any time now so things will probably get a bit busy soon!
In the meantime I might get SkyHD ordered and installed as I need a new LNB and cabling, because half our channels don't work properly due to water ingress in the cabling.
more as and when anything happens and I remember to take pictures of it...
It's worth bearing in mind that the system doesn't actually exist yet, beyond a deposit on a KRP-500A, but the plan is to match it with the Pioneer SC-LX81 amp, either the 52 or 71 BD player and a 5.1 speaker set, as yet undecided. Anyway I've decided that I'm going to have everything properly installed with all the kit hidden out of the living room and cables run to the speakers. The KRP helps with this as the seperate media box will go under the stairs with short connections from the sources and just the single cable running from the media box to the screen.
This is the "cupboard" under the stairs. For scale that's a full size door I'm shooting through. You can see on the back wall the partially removed plaster-board, the rest of it to the right is coming down as behind that is the living room, where the TV is going, so this area will be open to the living room, as I believe it used to be, up until about 30 years ago when the then owner blocked it in.
This is the "under the stairs" bit, the rack will going in here, positioned to the right to leave room to get round the back of it for cabling purposes. Having spent several hours clearing this area out and taking everything to the tip (the whole room was floor to ceiling with rubbish, including an air-rifle that neither of us have any idea where it came from!), I'm sllightly annoyed that the other half has already taken to lobbing rubbish in here again. That's an old 60 record player on the table incidentally. It isn't mine...
This is the consumer unit on the other wall that I'm going to have a new feed taken off of to power all the gear, I've had a rough estimate of about 100 quid from a sparky for that. I'm going to have the unit boxed in and shelving put along this wall as well for all the DVDs/BDs that I don't actually own yet, to get them out of the living room as well.
That's about as far as I've got so far! this bit will be carpeted and the ceiling refinished as it'll probably need to be opened up to run the cables. Now I'm waiting (still) for the dealer I'm getting the Pioneer stuff from to come over and check out the living room and start drawing up plans but this might have to wait even longer as the missus' daughter is due to give birth any time now so things will probably get a bit busy soon!
In the meantime I might get SkyHD ordered and installed as I need a new LNB and cabling, because half our channels don't work properly due to water ingress in the cabling.
more as and when anything happens and I remember to take pictures of it...
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