New House - Stereo Cabling Etc

[SoloFlyer]

Just a quick one ... if building a new house these days, is it worth while getting some cabling/tubing put in so that the house can be completely hooked up to the main stereo?

What options are there? Or is it all over wi-fi these days?

Ta

[Crossy]

We have not, apart from a short run to the rear speakers and for the gigabit ethernet between my PC and the media server that lives with the home theatre.

Any remote listening / viewing will be over Wi-Fi but that will mainly be me, wifey has a boom-box that is permanently tuned to some Thai station.

[kamalabob2]

It is very inexpensive to have your electrician install yellow conduit in the various walls and place decent quality speaker wire inside that conduit, BEFORE they render over the wall with the cement finish, or wall tile. Then you can have speakers placed accordingly and not a mess of speaker wire or the great expensive of wireless speakers. If they put conduit into the wall blocks AFTER they have rendered the wall it just does not come out the same as if they had installed the conduit PRIOR to the initial rendering. We had also run RG6 for TV reception and cat 5e for internet a few years back and it has served our purposes. But in the one room we did not install the speaker wires in the walls in advance it looks terrible, like a college dorm wiring. Plenty on the internet about NOT running electric wires in a certain distance of speaker wire and other audio / video wires. The labor cost and conduit cost is nominal in a home budget, but if done in advance can really be a nice touch in my opinion. Plenty of good quality speaker wires and other A/V cables in Thailand if you do not buy name brand or shop in large high end retail malls.

[regedit]

Suggest you use large diameter conduit and avoid T connections so you can easily upgrade cable in the future. For rear speakers could route conduit in the floor to minimise the length of cable runs.

[ETatBKK]

as plan, I have a 'accessible cable trunk' between two floors. then I hide cable conduits ( wiring conduits ) nicely below some wall cabinets.

as per today, wifi covers the entire house, only few pre-wired cat5 cables are connected.

audio and video cables, run inside cable conduits in short distance. but I relocated my work corner and away from the speaker location, I am experimenting wireless solution ( for low-fidelity sound ).

[SoloFlyer]

Thanks guys. Will ask the builders how difficult and expensive they think it might be. Don't know how to come up with a wiring plan though...

[bankruatsteve]

For what it's worth... unless you just want the intercom boxes in every room (which can be hooked up to a central "stereo"), I wouldn't bother. 40 years ago I thought that would be a good idea but almost never used it. For me, music is hi-fi with a good sound system 12' in front of you.

Except, it would be a good idea to run some wire from where you might sit or entertain outside and run to the "B" terminals on your receiver.

And, for sure run some coax (75ohm to wit) from your attic (or wherever would be near the service point) to your TV(s). Save you a lot of grief later.

[katabeachbum]

installed a bunch of extra 2 inch pvc through beams and some conduite in walls when i build. 5 years later they are almost full. Speakers on the other side of the pool, camera surveillance, switchs for waterfalls, timers for garden sprinklers, you name it

[bangsaenguy]

I had conduit laid under the flooring to the spots I wanted speakers and pulled wire later