Oh, thanks for the advice!!!!

I will take your advice and hit home depot on the way home.

Also I am having a whole house surge supresser put in my breakerbox. Lightning blew up a tree 30 yards from my house over the summer. I acutally saw it happen. It was very cool! But a few yards closer might have really messed me up big time. Microprocessors are in everything now, including the refrigerater and it would suck to have to replace everything.

Still will put surpressors on individual pieces as need be.

I know that Radio Shack carries network cable (both pre-terminated cables and bulk cable that you can terminate into "keystone" snap-in type wall jacks. I think that Home Depot and Lowes carry it too, but I haven't ever looked for it specifically.

Home Depot does carry bulk Cat 5 wire and the keystone jacks Gonk mentioned. I like the idea of a phone line too. You never know how we will receive our digital info in the future.

Home Depot does carry the cable and jacks for the Cat5. They are color coded too. We use the "B" protocol marked on the jack. From back to front, (Front being the side going into the room where you plug into), White/Blue, Blue/White, White/Orange, Orange/White on one side The other side goes White/Green, Green/White White/brown, Brown/White,
back to front. You need a punch down tool, which Home Depot sells a cheap one.

Got it. 50 feet, and jacks!

Already have a phone line but don't use it. I thought I would use it for Satilite but never switched from cable.

What next, intergallactic black hole?

Good tip guys, thanks. Be a while before I start streaming stuff over, but its good to have the infrastructure! I got a whole house surge supressor with phone and cable. It attaches to the breaker box. Got a ton of reading to do.

Must be patient!

http://www.panamax.com/literature/pdf/wholehousesystem.pdf

Please take a look at this persons comment and knowledge of single home power converters/conditioners. I was all set within minutes of starting to call electrictions until I saw and read this. The one whole house sounds good until you read this. I am holding off for now.
Mike

I had a whole house surge protector put in, but still will use protectors at critical areas.

AV fan,

The CS surrounds are freaky good! In SACD recordings your getitng a lot of information and it just blends in very well. IN 5.1 the effects are much larger than the room.

Last nite I was using a demo of Elton John "honky cat" in sacd. I like using familiar music that most people know and it just blows them away with what is happening with the music!

The speakers at the price on MK's site are excellent.

They have a money back policy if you don't like them.

Thanks for the update Nalod! Those CS surrounds are so different from anything else on the market, but they would solve the problem of where to put surrounds when your listening position is up against a back wall. I'm happy the CS surrounds are working out for you and I will recommend them to my family member when they start building their system.

I also have Elton John's Honky Chateau SACD and I like the way it was mixed. I agree it certainly takes advantage of the surrounds.

As a side note, I just bought a pair of M&K Bookshelf 75s off ebay to go with some older Adcom stereo gear (preamp, amp, cd player) I've purchased recently for my daughter. While the 75s don't sound as nice as my current or past M&Ks they are still amazing. They are a bass reflex enclosure and put out an amazing amount of low frequency for the size of the cabinet. They also have M&K's square tweeter which is excellent. The 75s are just another confirmation that M&K makes great speakers at an excellent price-to-value ratio.

Enjoy your system!