Hiding Scart Lead

[rgracin]

Hi,

We;re re-decorating the lounge and will want to mount the TV on the wall. Doing this, will expose the sub woofer for the home cinema set up, so ideally we want to move this to the study (7m away) along with the DVD player. Now, I can get a scart lead long enough, but they tend to be too thick to lose in the expansion gap for the wood floor.

Does anyone do small diameter cables, or will a flat one fold? I've looked at these wireless ones but the quality doesn't seem to be too good.

Any reccomendations would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Plotloss]

You want the sub 7 metres away from the screen?

How big is the room?

SCART often isnt the best choice of connection, in fact it rarely is.

[rgracin]

Room is approx 6.5x4m. Study is the other end of the room from the TV but about 1-2m from one of the sofa's.

Do you think it's too far from the TV then?

[GregE240]

Sub in an adjacent room?

I'm all for a spot of minimalism but why?

[Plotloss]

Low frequencies are omnidirectional, however the placement of the sub within the room is the most important facet of the surround soundstage.

It does depend on an extent as to what level of surround we're talking here. If its an all in one system then the placement of the sub will make little difference. If its a proper subwoofer then it will.

[rgracin]

It's nothing fancy. Just a Panasonic DVD system with middle and two front, two rear and one sub set up. The sub has the amp in the unit as well, so all speakers are wired into the back.

The room where I am thinking of putting it has a door way off the lounge so it's not the other side of the house.


Thoughts??

[Plotloss]

If you've not wired yet, they arent rears, they're surrounds, they should go slightly behind and either side of the listening position facing each other, not on the back wall facing forward.

Sub placement will make little difference as its not got the guts to fill the room anyway.

[rgracin]

Yes, sorry, meant surrounds. It's not a new system to us, so can confirm that Sub has plenty of guts. Will make mirrors on the wall vibrate. Does that make any difference?

[SLacKer]

How about converting to cat5 cable

http://www.kat5.tv/products.html

[headcase]

You really need the sub in the same room as the other speakers otherwise it just wont sound right and if you did move it you would have to re wire all of the speakers to the new location. Is there anyware else it could go in the same room like behind a couch or something?
As for long scarts then you really do loose picture quality noticably when you go over 5m or so, i wouldnt really recommend that route, ideally i would be looking for a solution that keeps the sub in the same room and the DVD head unit not to far away from the screen. Most of the Pana stuff with that type of sub have component out so it is worth looking into using this instead of the scart.

[rgracin]

It's not easy this is it??

OK,

I think I have found somewhere to put the Sub in the same room, so might as well have the DVD mounted under the TV. However... the cable that runs between the DVD and the sub is not long enough. I haven't got the details with me at work, but a quick scan on google doesn't bring up anything like it. Would it ne a Panasonic specific lead? The connectors are rectangular bt about half the size of a normal scart with approx 20 pins. Or is there another way I can connect the two?

Sorry for the stupid amateur questions.

[garycat]

headcase said:

You really need the sub in the same room as the other speakers otherwise it just wont sound right .

I'm always amazed at how many ICE installers put the sub in the boot of the car. It may be OK with a hatchback, but in a quality saloon with tons of sounds insulation?

[bored-of-coding]

rgracin said:

It's not easy this is it??

it gets very very much harder ..

[headcase]

its a panasonic specific lead and they dont make longer ones, i once chopped the end of 2 of them and spliced them togeter to make a longer one but i wouldnt recommend it, LOL the second i chopped the 1st plug off it looked at it and said to myself......idiot :P