[BigBen]

Hi Can Anyone help me? if you are doing the home audio or hi-fi business, could you give me a price of the following project?

We've recently moved to a new house, there are some wires come out from the wall, see the picture below, and also in every bedroom, there are wires come out from the each corner. some of my friend said that was the Multi-Room audio, I am just not sure, and can't get hold of the previous owner, could you tell me if these are the home audio system? how much might cost to complete the work? (pics are attached)

Thanks and Regards,
Big Ben

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[BaldyBeardyBloke]

Home audio looks favourite to me. Not the right sort of cabling for a computer network.

Sorry, that's the best I can do, probably not a lot of help.

[Caroline and Dave]

I should think Leccy Lee's the best person to advise on this, when he's calmed down a bit he will probably be along.If he does not see this you could always pm him.Not sure he could do it but he is probably able to advise.

[Leccy-Lee]

From the pictures i would concur thats its speaker wiring for an audio system. Difficult to see what they were trying to achieve from it really. I assume sets of speakers in each room all feeding back to the lounge i assume for Hi-Fi or dvd sound. But its unusual to do that without having the network cables or cables for images also.

I assume this is kind of thing they planned for originally: (ignoring the labels)
http://www.hometech.com/images/va-450060a.jpg

In terms of fixing them or finishing it, what do you want with it? If you also plan speakers in each room for yourself then finish it, else if you wont ever use it, you could get somebody to cut them off and seal the holes up? (If you live near Wellington by all means PM me).

As to costs, its not a line of work i have worked in here, but for parts (the audio wall jacks) i would suggest no more than $150 (brand and quality dependant), and an hour or two's labour costs is all it should take.

Sorry cant give more exact info, feel free to PM me.

[CJ22]

Looks like audio cabling. Certainly not CAT-5 network cabling. As Lee says it looks like it just needs wall sockets, or you can just wire it directly into your sound system if you're not fussy.

[BigBen]

From the pictures i would concur thats its speaker wiring for an audio system. Difficult to see what they were trying to achieve from it really. I assume sets of speakers in each room all feeding back to the lounge i assume for Hi-Fi or dvd sound. But its unusual to do that without having the network cables or cables for images also.

I assume this is kind of thing they planned for originally: (ignoring the labels)
http://www.hometech.com/images/va-450060a.jpg

In terms of fixing them or finishing it, what do you want with it? If you also plan speakers in each room for yourself then finish it, else if you wont ever use it, you could get somebody to cut them off and seal the holes up? (If you live near Wellington by all means PM me).

As to costs, its not a line of work i have worked in here, but for parts (the audio wall jacks) i would suggest no more than $150 (brand and quality dependant), and an hour or two's labour costs is all it should take.

Sorry cant give more exact info, feel free to PM me.


Thanks Mate, that was really helpful, do you know where I can get those wall socket, and is it hard to install? is there dummy book online? haha

anyway, thanks guys!

[Leccy-Lee]

Any electrical wholesalers will be able to get them for you (likely to be ordered in though) such as "Corys / Advance / Mastertrade / Rexel"

As to fitting them, although its no too hard and totally safe to do it, without experience i would probably recommend finding someone thats done them before maybe?