Thread: my basic set up, be gental with me please

after looking at some of what you guys have done I think I'm a very basic home cinema set up. We've a decent size lounge (for most in the Uk), but one half of it is geared up for the TV etc, the other side is where the log burner is and seating when you want to relax and read the papers with a coffee

anyway, back to the TV/cinema area...

37" 1080HD Samsung LCD telly.
Onkyo 607 amp, Q-Acoustic 1010i 5.1 speakers + the Yamaha sub for extra bass. BTvision and samsung blu-ray player.

previously I had the all-in-one Denon system that I was more than happy with, but wanted a bit mpre now I'd had that a few years. but when I fitted the deon in the new house I lost the speaker wires in the wall for the rears and front speakers wire when up the stands, so no need to chop out plaster. Problem was I didn't leave enough spare wire coming up from the carpet to easily pull outthe TV stand if I needed to get to the rear of the units.

So I bought a 5.1 face plate and soldered all the speaker wires to the back of that,
one of these... from Nexxia Audio Solutions - Perfect Solutions for Quality Sound

(I used a wall mount electric back box instead of chopping the wall out to fix, so it is moveable if needed)
then banana plugged 5 lengths of wire about 15" long so I could connect to the back of the Onkyo them banana plug to the wall 'face plate'.


enough waffle .. here you go

rear left (Q-Acoustic speaker brackets).


had a bit of major touching up and filling the wall afterthe single arm speaker bracket used on the Denon wouldn't come off without me making a big hole in the plaster board, so lucky I had paint touch up colour (orange) and I still had some of the top colour scumble colour

how it was before


rear right




front left + front right with sub next to it



2nd Sub (Yamaha) this is to the left of the seating possition 2/3rds between the front left and right rear speaker.


TV with green LED mood lights




We only sit about 6 foot away from the TV, directly facing it, so our room has a 'square' feel when it comes to the surround sound effect.



any possitive or negative comments???

hang the Tv on the wall.

nice dude looks good. but how does it sound =)

Originally Posted by SaturnKilled A-E

hang the Tv on the wall.

what for?????? to give us a bad neck? lol

Originally Posted by Play4Luxury

nice dude looks good. but how does it sound =)

with the Onkyo 607 and the Q Acoustic 1010i's it sounds awesome. well pleased with the sound.

Watched DISTRICT 9 the other night, brill.

Great setup super clean! I think you have the wrong color LEDs though? All the ones I have seen are a perfect white to make the tv colors enhanced?

Or why did you pick green?

HANGING IT on the wall at a little above eye level will make the room so much cleaner......

What he said^^

Originally Posted by PIXXFLIX

HANGING IT on the wall at a little above eye level will make the room so much cleaner......

can't see the point, when the amp, Bluray, BTvision etc all need to be connect to the TV, if the TV were on the wall, where would all the wires have to go, either let into the wall or in conduit,
Plus where it is now, is at EYE level, so you see a clean picture and not shaded, like you see when you look across a LCD screen.
Also I don't trust our outter brick work, and plaster board on the wall LoL


GREEN, led lighting... cus I like the green

Clean yet unique with the green lighting. As long as it gets the job done!!