checklist (someone please be my second pair of eyes)

[Trean]

Okay so I didn't really know where to put this. I just want someone to check and make sure I have everything that he/she believes I need (and I believe I need) to connect my components. 1 monoprice order instead of 2 will help spread shipping cost over items.

Setup
Plasma HDTV (still unpurchased)
HTPC (w/ HDMI out)
Panasonic/Sony Blu-Ray player (still unpurchased)
Pioneer VSX-1120-K
Polk Audio CS1 Series II Center
Polk Audio Monitor60 Series II (front l/r bi-amped)
Polk Audio Monitor50 Series II (surround l/r)
Premier Acoustic PA-120

Monoprice Order
12AWG Enhanced Loud Oxygen-Free Copper Speaker Wire Cable - 100ft
PAIR OF High-Quality Copper Speaker Banana Plugs - Open Screw Type (x14)
3FT 28AWG 28AWG HDMI Cable - Black
3FT 28AWG HDMI Cable - Blue
6FT 28AWG HDMI Cable - Black
12ft Coaxial Audio/Video RCA Cable M/M RG59U 75ohm

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by Trean

Okay so I didn't really know where to put this. I just want someone to check and make sure I have everything that he/she believes I need (and I believe I need) to connect my components. 1 monoprice order instead of 2 will help spread shipping cost over items.

Setup
Plasma HDTV (still unpurchased)
HTPC (w/ HDMI out)
Panasonic/Sony Blu-Ray player (still unpurchased)
Pioneer VSX-1120-K
Polk Audio CS1 Series II Center
Polk Audio Monitor60 Series II (front l/r bi-amped)
Polk Audio Monitor50 Series II (surround l/r)
Premier Acoustic PA-120

Monoprice Order
12AWG Enhanced Loud Oxygen-Free Copper Speaker Wire Cable - 100ft
PAIR OF High-Quality Copper Speaker Banana Plugs - Open Screw Type (x14)
3FT 28AWG 28AWG HDMI Cable - Black
3FT 28AWG HDMI Cable - Blue
6FT 28AWG HDMI Cable - Black
12ft Coaxial Audio/Video RCA Cable M/M RG59U 75ohm

Trean ~ From the looks of it There are a couple things that come to mind :

First ; Is the 100 ft. of speaker wire going to be enough , Have you measured your distances for your runs & are there any thoughts of adding surround rears down the road ! In my past experience's , To much is better then not enough & you should add a couple of feet to each run just in case you move something.

Second ; That will only be enough sets of Banana plugs to do one end of your speaker wires ~ What about the other ends ?

Third ; It does not hurt to have an extra HDMI cable & at Monoprice's cost it is cheap to get. Also make sure your 3' HDMI's will be long enough !

[Trean]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Trean ~ From the looks of it There are a couple things that come to mind :

First ; Is the 100 ft. of speaker wire going to be enough , Have you measured your distances for your runs & are there any thoughts of adding surround rears down the road ! In my past experience's , To much is better then not enough & you should add a couple of feet to each run just in case you move something.

Second ; That will only be enough sets of Banana plugs to do one end of your speaker wires ~ What about the other ends ?

Third ; It does not hurt to have an extra HDMI cable & at Monoprice's cost it is cheap to get. Also make sure your 3' HDMI's will be long enough !

Thanks for being my second set of eyes.

1) The 100ft is more than enough, I measured out about 81 feet of wire usage with measurements that were generous. I don't plan on going to 7.1 at any time in the recent to near future, so that consideration is so far off that I wouldn't mind putting in another monoprice order versus storing excess within the little amount of storage I currently have available to me.

2) Its one pair per purchase so the x14 should yield a total of 28 plugs. Which should be enough if I calculated correctly, 4 per front l/r, 2 for each of the other speakers and then double that number for connecting to the receiver. So 28.

3) I too am concerned about the 3 foot HDMI cables. I might bump those up in size before placing the order. I will measure and see how much 3 feet actually gets me with considering the location of the HDMI inputs on the receiver.


I added some network cables to the order since the blu-ray player, receiver and HTPC all have ethernet jacks (or will). I will verify measurement of those too before placing the order.

Again thanks for the second set of eyes.

[Big Daddy]

Make sure the subwoofer cables are long enough so that you can experiment with sub placement. Also, you can buy RG6 sub cables instead of RG59. RG6 cables are a bit more expensive and are harder and less flexible. They have a solid copper core whereas RG59 use stranded coper. The other difference between the two is the type of shielding they use. You probably will not be able to tell the difference between the two types of cables.

[Trean]

I would like to thank all of you for helping me out in double checking my order. Placed it today, added some length to the cables and will just tie off excess versus being stuck with a short cable. Added some cables to connect my normal PC to the receiver as well, no sense in not connecting it