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  1. JohnRice

    New Home - to pre-wire or not to pre-wire?

    Just to add to that. Be certain the speaker wire is CL2. It's probably not required by code, but the insulation on regular speaker wire will deteriorate inside walls, sometimes rather quickly. Honestly, the cost for 12GA OFC isn't that much more than 14GA from places like MonoPrice, so you...
  2. JohnRice

    New Home - to pre-wire or not to pre-wire?

    I (or someone) can go into more detail later when I have more time, but I'd wire the room for 7.1, or even 7.1.4, for more flexibility. Where you have your current surround speakers are really where the second pair of surrounds should be in a 7.1 system. For 5.1 they should be to the sides of...
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