Doh...... just found my previous post... it must have been hiding.
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Gordon,
In my experience, even good quality SCART cables longer than a couple of metres produce poor results particularly when RGB video is in use which is the normal case. If I have to go more than a metre, then I use three 50 ohm balanced coax cable for the video, if fact you can buy SCART cables in this form to solve the problems you have highlighted.
Location: Hampshire, England
I to have had the experience of hiding cables in the walls. My living room looks like a bombsite. Will put phots on this site to show the complete carnage. However only after i have the finished product ready to live in. Unfortunately all my walls are made of bricks and blocks so no amount of drilling or hammering with a hammer would achive the cables ducts i required. So i borrowed my mates diamond edged block cutter. I have never seen so much dust. I litteraly could not see my hands in front of my face. My first thought was is my precious B & O covered up enough? Ran upstairs tripped, scraped my shins but still managed to cast my eyes on my dust free equipment. Phew!!!!!
I have encased all the cables in a sturdy plastic covering used for lighting and power cables. Although this has taken a lot of time i think its well worth it. The pictures put out on most magazines including B & O ones seem to have all the cables hidden so the object they want us to has all the ugly cables hidden or in fact not there at all. This i find more pleasing to the eye.
Just waiting for the plasterer to cover all the cables dusts now and to tidy up the cut to width Beovision 3 cabinet which will be embedded into the old fireplace. Above it will be the BV 7 32 inch in all its glory, cable free of course.
Cannot wait to finish so i can enjoy all the B & O in its full glory.
B & O Nutter
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Been there,. done that!! Seems, Carl, like your a man after my own heart. Why pay someone to do it when you can make an **** of it your self?
I hope you tested everything before you started plastering it in!
Andy T.
Andy,
all the cables have been fully tested. I have even layed an addtional set of speaker daisy chain cables just in case i want to have more than the norm in the future. Even if i decide to sell i have put in bog standard speaker cable of a high quality. I have tried to think of everything.
Just need to finalise the final plugging up off the BV 7 to the ever growing amount of additional equipment. I think i will use every socket on the back and just have the cables ready to use. God damm thats a fortune in cables alone. Cannot do plastering so the builder will do that. Thanks God.
Will keep you informed.
B & O Nutter
Carl, it´s good to hear I´m not alone! Looking forward to see it as well. 👍
Just need to finalise the final plugging up off the BV 7 to the ever growing amount of additional equipment. I think i will use every socket on the back and just have the cables ready to use. God damm thats a fortune in cables alone. Cannot do plastering so the builder will do that. Thanks God.Will keep you informed.B & O Nutter
Carl
Just to suggestions which you may have done anyway;
1) Put 1 or 2 HDMI cables in the ducting if you havnt already.
2) If once the ducting is in the wall it will be possible to pull cables up and down it from below the floor, put a piece of phone cable in the ducting knotted at each end, have it over twice as long as the ducting, if you need to pull other cables through at a later date you can attach it and pull it though in either direction. Leave the bulk of the cable in the floor space and just wind up a short piece and hide at the top of the ducting.
Cheers
Peter
Thanks Peter i wll try and cater for all the recommendations that you have given me plus the other members as well.
B & O Nutter
...Also run coax for digital speaker connection - learn from my mistake🙁. Now I'll never get the BL5s...
Duplicated post (sorry)
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