Design/layout ideas

[Flake]

I am going to be building a new house within the next few months and am in the process of designing my floorplan as we speak.  I will want to incorporate a wall mounted touchscreen jukebox in/on the wall as I currently have in my house now.  Since I am building this thing from scratch I will have all the speaker wires run to the area the computer will reside.  My current setup relies on a 2.4 GHZ transmitter to channel the signal to a receiver plugged into my stereo receiver.  In addition, my surround sound speakers in my basement used for TV viewing are also the same speakers used for the jukebox.

Question -

If could start from scratch with the freedom to incorporate all your ideas what would they be? 

What would you do differently the second (or third/fourth) time through?

Could be anything from computer specs to component hardware to speakers/speaker wire or cool lighting effects......whatever....

I would be interested in getting some ideas.

Thanks in advance!

[HaRuMaN]

Run ethernet lines everywhere!   

[ami-man]

Hi,

I would make those ethernet cables Cat6 minimum and run a few multicore cables for future use and put in some heavy duty speaker cables in area's you think you may have a need for and run them all back to your basement area or where ever you think your main controls will be installed.

Regards
Alan Hood
ami-man

[Flake]

What is a multi-core cable?

[BobA]

Lots of choices for multi core cables.   You have to sort of know what types you may use.

Cable Info

[kizer]

When I wired up my place I installed Cat5e even for phone line. I knew in the end if I ever needed I would have spare wire within the Cat5e.

[caesar]

Hello,
   I'm not sure how your connecting your touch monitor to the PC (VGA?), but the distance should be no longer than 15ft.
Definetly get away from using that 2.4ghz transmitter. I also have a 2.4 ghz telephone & a Linksys 2.4 ghz router. Lots of problems

Thanks!

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=98605.msg1041950#msg1041950

[urbecrisch]

Not sure if this is something you need for sound, but I use it and it works perfect for my juke (no hum).

http://www.fxsound.com/mp3connector/index.php?vendor=0&subvendor=0&plus=0&refer=14