You need a spool of in-wall rated 12 ga, or 4-conductor 16 ga wire. Try www.partsexpress.com.

You want a CL2 or CL3 rating as this is fire-code in many areas.

Do NOT spend $$$ for high-end copper. Good oxygen free wire is all you need for movie soundtracks and the 12 ga will work fine for the long runs.

Run the wires zig-zag between the studs with insulated staples pounded in half-way. If you ever need slack in the future - tug to pop the first staple.

Run the wires through plastic electrical outlet box's. Pull enough wire to create a un-broken run from the amp to the speakers. Later you can install Decora wall-plates with binding posts, but to start - just buy blank wall-plates and drill holes to thread the wires through. This is cheaper, simpler and frankly better than binding-posts in wall plates.

Run CATV coax to the corner of the 2 longest un-broken walls. This will be your subwoofer cable.

Run Cat-6 network cable to behind where your rack is. You can install a small $49 switch to send internet to your devices. Wireless is fine - but wired is faster and better.

Run telephone wire to behind where your rack is. Cable and Sat box's often want this so you can order pay-per-view movies and shows.

Label, label, LABEL:

Go to Radio Shack and get some of those Wire Labels with the clear tape that wraps around the white label. Do a simple "A", "B", "C" label on both ends of the wire. Repeat the labels every foot or so as the wires emerge from the walls and a foot or two into the walls (in case you tug to pull slack).

OPTIONAL:

At the back of the room - put an AC outlet on the ceiling for a projector. You can run a long HDMI cable up there or run some plastic conduit with a fish-rope to pull a cable through later. Try www.bluejeanscables.com for good, long HDMI cables that will survive the trip.

This is cheap to do now - expensive to do later.

Hope this helps.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 28 Aug 2013, 15:43, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I dunno mate, I use Van Damme Studio Grade.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 28 Aug 2013, 15:48, Reply)

I bet that splits easily

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 28 Aug 2013, 15:50, Reply)