Quite honestly....if you are good with a aluminum or fiber fishing line then you dont need a professional. However, get ready for a fun time fishing wire in and out of walls...depending on your build it could be loads of fun or a real quick install. I did my install myself in a small room...but the construction was so lousy (bought the house..not my choice) that it took me a good few hours to pull speaker wire in a small room. 20x10 or so...
As for the cable itself... I have read and argued this with myself over and over again. As it turns out...the wire that gave me the best bang for my buck was a large 100' spool of RCA 12gauge that I bought at Home Depot... I have tried Monster XP and others...they are all good. But price wise this RCA did the job and upon measuring signals I noticed that it was actually better then the monster xp cabling (same receiver used for testing). I use a old school RAT SHACK analog level meter...works great.
Hope that helps some.
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Denon 4308
M80x2,VP150,EP600,4xQS8
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