OK I am not sure if this qualifies as a hobby, but it feels like one because I have been working on it slowly since “Black Friday” of Thanksgiving week of last year.
So finally late Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, depending how you look at it; I finally finished my surround sound system.
First I had to buy it, which is what I did after Thanksgiving. Then had to set it up, which basically consisted of me learning how to set it up. Then there was me moving it and resetting it up. (None of that entails learning how to operate the settings to get the sound I wanted to get by the way. )
So then a bug crawled up my you know want and I moved just about every piece of furniture in my whole house except my pool table (Some might know that I just bought my first house at the start of last summer). That sort of began when my cat decided to eat my waterbed. My fault, I knew there was a casement I could get for it when I adopted my cat. You would think that after I saved him from death, from someone who was going to take him to the open road in a snow storm and toss him away he would have spared my bed, but I ended up having to buy an extra thick waterbed mattress and a casement for it. (That cost kept me from being able to go to the meet up in Dallas that I so much wanted to go to and had pulled teeth to get the time off for from work. He is so lucky I love that little guy.)
Anyways so after moving all the furniture around I was now walking over speaker wires… So then came my bright idea of running the wires in the walls.
So, 6 or more weeks later it is finally done. I must say it looks and sounds great. I got my center speaker just over my 50 inch widescreen, 2 floor speakers standing on the floor to the left and right of the TV, 2 side speaker mounted to the walls with these cool speaker brackets and 2 rear speakers mounted to the rear wall also with the same cool brackets.
The wires from the receiver run to plates on the wall behind the TV stand that I made from parts from Home Depot, then the wires run from inside the wall to the basement, through the floor joists then up the correct walls to similar plates. I had to make short wires for the wall speakers, I cut 16 gauge wire and put high end banana plugs on them (had to the same for the wires that run to the receiver also) and then they jack right into the speaker and they jack into wall plate.
Anyways just wanted to post this, and if anyone is thinking of doing this themselves I am now an expert…lol. Feel free to drop a line if ya got a question. Later all.