I posted sometime back about the amp I decided to use and have actually got a part of this system in place:
It took about an hour for the furniture people to assemble the 'media centre' as I like to call it. At the top is the center speaker (B&W LCR600) ; next level down you can find a switch, adsl modem/router, the amp and PS2 ; Mac mini under the plasma on the left ; in the two open shelves there will be a VHS deck and Satellite receiver on the right (already pictured above).
Couple shots of the amp:
Initial connections:
Quite a bit will change in December when I add the front, rear and sub to the setup and clean up the cabling etc. Everything is connected to a Riello 1KVA 'true-sinewave' UPS.
As for the cabling used most of the interconnects are by QED as are the speaker cables.
Connections:
The following interfaces on the amp have been setup as follows:
(video switched with audio)
DVD -- Coax 1 (to M-Audio Sonica USB connected to the Mac mini, video direct to the TV's DVI interface)
VDP -- Optical 1 (PS2)
DBS -- Optical 2 (Satellite receiver)
VCR-1 -- composite video, phono audio to VCR deck
(audio only)
Phono -- to Airport Express
CD -- Coax 2 (to G5's M-Audio Rev 7.1 soundcard)
Monitor Out --> to TV (AV1)
There are composite leads from the VHS and Satellite receiver connected to their respective 'video-in' connections.