Home Theater Component Placement Ideas

You do not want to run two different lengths of wire. See the recent "Cable lengths" in cables for the reasons why.

Greg

Keep your speaker cables the same length. I have been faced with the same dilema, so what I have done is to coil the excess cable behind my rack. One option that I have been considering for a while is to purchase an AV table/rack to place in front of my RPTV. This would give me center massed storage and a stand for my center channel. If height is an issue for this solution you could have a solid riser built for your RPTV with a tunnel through the center to run cables through.

Just some thoughts.

I am now leaning toward getting two long cables (it will be much trouble to not go this route:-) -- I was thinking I will coil up in a figure eight the short one. I saw that someone posted that this was the correct way to coil it up -- any ideas if this is true?

I recently found a good solution for me to this problem. My wall for the main speakers and a large screen was just too tight with the equipment stand on that wall as well. I moved my rack to the back of the room, & used 25 ft pre-amp to power amp runs for the audio, purchased a high quality 7 Meter s-video cable (around $160). Now the 2 speaker sound is much more open, the front of the room does not look so cramped and the preamp controls, DVD player, & CD player are not much more than an arms length away. I received a confirmation from Audio Quest that preamp to amp runs can be even much longer than that without an impact to the audio. I did not have any apparent loss of audio signal and in fact the equipment spacing improvement helped a lot!