Media Centre/Media Wall - Show us your set-up and any advice

[juliussneezer]

Thinking of getting one made and have had a carpenter/joiner round to give me ideas but I'd like to get more than just his ideas hence this thread.

I'm thinking something like this...but it will have to be adapted to accept a sub-woofer somewhere along the bottom [groan].



Also the amp has to stand on the first shelf and on show although the sky box will accept a signal even in a cupboard.

So, has anyone had one built, can you post up some pics of your build, and with hindsight what advice would you give?

Thanks in advance.

Edited by juliussneezer on Thursday 7th November 23:04

[GH911]

Do you want the amp on show? If it’s for the signal, then get an infrared transmitter, which are pretty neat and inconspicuous. Had all our av kit hidden away in a cupboard.

[juice]

Here's ours. 55 lg oled, sonus arc

We had builders make it. Frame, marine Ply then mdf routed in a random pattern

[clockworks]

All of my AV gear is hidden away in cupboards, just the TV and the front speakers (actually a Monitor Audio passive soundbar) are on display. The sub is tucked behind a sofa, rear/effects speakers are in the ceiling.

I use a Harmony remote to control everything. The handset communicates with a hub using bluetooth, the hub contains an IR blaster which controls everything in one cupboard, and an external IR repeaters does the other cupboard.

The cupboards are actually accessible from the back side of the wall, so just a recess on the lounge side - no fire, shelves or doors.
Recess is back-lit.

[Griffith4ever]

I gave up on cabinets and cupboards after years of dicking about and instead got my father inlaw to make me a very simple "unit" out of pine (wax stained) to my spec - I could not find anything like it online - certainly not anything that wasn't absolutely daft money.

Centre speaker is in it too, and I also use Harmony hub etc.

[gangzoom]

We got two build, one with the TV center stage and AV gear on show as its the 'media' room, the other is the main living room. Plan for the living room is to replace the old Panni plasma with something like the LG Frame once funds allow, all the gubbins will be dealt with in the cupboards underneath hidden by the sofa, and using a sound bar (will buy the matching wireless subwoofer once TV is changed).

Only advice is to ensure you plan cable runs- I've ended up having to drill more holes my self. If you want to hardwired in Cat6 cabling for streaming it's a good time to do it.

[335dTot]

We had one done a year ago, our tv is a 65” & we had the sky box fitted on a bracket behind the tv, we have a Sonos system & we keep our sub in a corner of the room, near the sofa.

[wibble cb]

I built this out of Ikea units and high gloss kitchen panels, I split one unit into 2 for the speaker housings, the only electrical units on show is the tv and dvd player, the others are in the cabinets along with a master switch multi plug track as I soon discovered having everything plumbed in behind the TV meant it was a big faff to get to any issues, I have a mini pc attached to the back as well, and a wireless keyboard in the coffee table, for non TV sourced viewing.

To give a sense of scale the TV is 55 inches.

apologies for the cr4p photo

[Stuart12]

Just finished this, 2 x sub woofer boxes behind false wall, sunken LCR and front atmos speakers also included

[MOMACC]

Mate did the woodwork
Sparkie and plasterer finished off
Cost me about £1k but that's with free labour from the chippy

[IJWS15]

Work in progress, cost so far about 200. It was easier than trying to take out the fire and get the resulting wall flat.

Hardest part so far was connecting the two FCUs. Top recess is to take the tv bracket so the tv will sit closer to the wall. Intention is no obvious wiring.

[Sy1441]

Are they not going out of fashion? Anyway, I have two of them.

One has a Samsung 65" QLED, Sonos Beam & Sub. Other Has a 77" LG OLED, Sonos Arc, Era 300's and 2 x Subs (their "atmos" setup).