Making home theatre system wireless

[MasterOfReality]

Like heaps of people, my home theater system has all the speaker leads running everywhere, and I have now moved into a house where the floor is tiled so I can't run speaker wires to my rear speakers. I don't want to fork out to get an electrician to run them through the walls, or buy a new home theater system.

I saw on the Jaycar website early last year a system with a transmitter and receiver that can turn virtually any home theater wireless. I went into the local shop around then and saw the unit first hand, it was around $300 if i remember correctly.

Does anybody have this, had any experience with this, or know where to get it from? I can't seem to find the damn thing on their website now.

Any other suggestions?

[vlv8vic]

Is it your house or rental? If it's yours just run them through the ceiling. i did mine when we moved in here and it wasn't a whole lot of fun but they are good now.
I would have rathered they be in those plastic grates in the wall so you couldn;t see them at all but there wasn't enough space.

[MasterOfReality]

The house is mine.

I was thinking of running them myself from the wall behind the cabinet, across the ceiling and down the wall behind the lounge. Did you have to do this? Thats the only bit that has me stuffed

Thanks.

[CSP]

If you want to significantly lower sound quality, go for a wireless setup.

Bottom line, if you want a good home theatre, it needs to be WIRED

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Option B is to run the wires behind the skirting. I have 1/4 rounds as my skirting and I ran the wires behind that.

[MasterOfReality]

Option B is to run the wires behind the skirting. I have 1/4 rounds as my skirting and I ran the wires behind that.

I was thinking about this, however the layout of my living room makes this difficult.

My only other way if I can't get wireless or can't be bothered running the wires through the walls/ceiling is to buy a huge floor rug ($$$) which covers everything between the floor unit and the lounge.

Then again, the cost of such a rug might make a professional install by an electrician look feasible again

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

It will depend on what has to run where. If it is only speaker wires to be run, then it is a DIY job, if it is power, then it must be done by a licensed electrician.

It makes things hard when there is a door where wires have to go.

[vlv8vic]

Is the house brick veneer? That's where i was lucky. The TV and drives etc are all on an outside wall meaning i could run wires straight up through the gap between the studs and the bricks, then drill a tiny hole in the ceiling for the wires to the speaker.
Being an outside wall i also put a 2inch pipe between TV and the dvd unit so any cables can be poked through the hole (bar power, tight PPT behind the plasma.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

That will also work with double brick as there is a cavity between the two on the outside walls.

[MasterOfReality]

The house is brick veneer, but the wall that the stereo backs against is an internal wall.

Damn, there has gotta be an easier way.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Run the square conduit up the wall. I think that may be your only solution. Then hang a big picture or something over it.

[vlv8vic]

I suppose it is built on a slab? and that takes away the opportunity to go underfloor? as your luck would have it.....

[MasterOfReality]

It keeps on getting worse.

Yep, built on a slab.........................

I think I might just have to run the square conduit up the wall, through the ceiling and down the wall behind the lounge.

Good thing is the lounge and the entertainment unit are near exposed corners of walls, so I can run the square conduit around the corner, up the wall so it wont clutter up the walls directly behind the stereo and the lounge.