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This is my first post here in the AVS forum. For the last couple of years I have been working on the A/V system at my house. My cousin taught me everything I know. It has been quite a learning experience. When I purchased the house, we remodelled it. During the remodel, we reran all the wires and everything needed for a killer sound system. That got me started for the living room at least. And little by little I have been expanding it to the other rooms. Anyways, I am nearly done and the system is under going its final upgrade. So I thought I would share with you my setup. Everything I have installed and put together myself except where I needed a second person to help.
Here is the living room. We have 5 speaker crafts, in ceiling. My cousin helped me cut these speakers in. Every thing in this house is like 3 times more difficult to do than in a normal house because of its age. The ceiling and all the walls are plaster. And there are two layers of plaster with chicken wire between them. So we had to get a roto zip to cut through the dry wall and the chicken wire. It is messy.
More pictures of the in ceiling speakers. We had also cut in these can lights. There are four of them and they are surrounded by the 5 speakers.
All the equipment is housed in a closet. All the ethernet from every room and all the coax all come here. The DirecTV satellite also gets fed in here. The gigabit switch is velcro mounted to the wall.
Recently I added Cool Components VS-HFS-WB vent system to move the hot air out.
It vents out into the adjacent vented closet, where the security system is. This weekend I installed the VS-HFS-WB and I had to move all these security panels like 8 inches lower to where they are now to make room for the vent.
The equipment is housed in a Middle Atlantic rack which is not finished. This is my first rack. Before I had Sanus shelf system. I am very happy with Middle Atlantic and the product they put out. It was the right move for where my system was headed.
And you can see the back, the wire management is not yet done, the top lace bar is just chilling. I am still waiting on a couple other things before I finish up the back. Once I have the wire management done, and everything zip tied I will better pictures of it. Everything is controlled through Control4 HC-300.
Master bedroom with another TV and 5 speaker craft in ceiling.
Guest bedroom. This one has the older TV and only 2 in ceiling speakers.
Outside security cameras. He is just one of them. They are monoprice.
Happy that I can share this. I usually don't let people into my house.
Here is the living room. We have 5 speaker crafts, in ceiling. My cousin helped me cut these speakers in. Every thing in this house is like 3 times more difficult to do than in a normal house because of its age. The ceiling and all the walls are plaster. And there are two layers of plaster with chicken wire between them. So we had to get a roto zip to cut through the dry wall and the chicken wire. It is messy.
More pictures of the in ceiling speakers. We had also cut in these can lights. There are four of them and they are surrounded by the 5 speakers.
All the equipment is housed in a closet. All the ethernet from every room and all the coax all come here. The DirecTV satellite also gets fed in here. The gigabit switch is velcro mounted to the wall.
Recently I added Cool Components VS-HFS-WB vent system to move the hot air out.
It vents out into the adjacent vented closet, where the security system is. This weekend I installed the VS-HFS-WB and I had to move all these security panels like 8 inches lower to where they are now to make room for the vent.
The equipment is housed in a Middle Atlantic rack which is not finished. This is my first rack. Before I had Sanus shelf system. I am very happy with Middle Atlantic and the product they put out. It was the right move for where my system was headed.
And you can see the back, the wire management is not yet done, the top lace bar is just chilling. I am still waiting on a couple other things before I finish up the back. Once I have the wire management done, and everything zip tied I will better pictures of it. Everything is controlled through Control4 HC-300.
Master bedroom with another TV and 5 speaker craft in ceiling.
Guest bedroom. This one has the older TV and only 2 in ceiling speakers.
Outside security cameras. He is just one of them. They are monoprice.
Happy that I can share this. I usually don't let people into my house.