Adaptiplate™ Wall Plates

Adaptiplate™ Wall Plates from MCM Custom Audio

Installation professionals and as well as occasional hobbyists know the frustration in dealing with the nearly infinite combinations of connectors required in wall plates used in residential A/V system installations. It seems that no two home theater system installations are the same. Throw in inter connection with whole-house distributed audio systems, remotely located subwoofers, surveillance cameras and the like, and you quickly realize that having a pre-made wall plate for every situation is impossible.

One solution is keystone connector systems, such as Quickport® products from Leviton. This system allows a great deal of flexibility and provides very high quality terminations that would be expected from a name like Leviton. However many have found this to be somewhat restrictive and costly.

Another solution is to use pass–through wall plates, such as the Wireport™ and Splitport™ products from Midlite®. , however many installers prefer not to have cables hanging out of wall openings while waiting for final connection of equipment. They consider terminated wall plates to be a more professional looking installation.

To address this problem, MCM has put together a collection of blank hex opening wall plate inserts, and a wide variety of connectors, called the Adaptiplate™ Wall Plate System.

The MCM Custom Audio Adaptiplate™ System allows installers to configure single or multi– gang wall plates with exactly the connectors needed. Hex inserts accept “F” and RCA connectors to suite a wide range of audio and video applications. Keystone style inserts are compatible with both Leviton and Tyton Hellermann wall plates, allowing easy integration with existing Decora style devices.

The following photos were taken during a recent home renovation by a member of the MCM staff, where Adaptiplates were used to accommodate a telephone, CATV and speaker connections.

Read further to get the complete picture of the MCM Custom Audio Adaptiplate™ System. You may also download the complete information sheet in PDF format.

To configure wall plates, you first start with a blank Decora Insert. These single gang inserts accept one to eight connectors. If more than eight connectors are needed, multiple inserts may be used.

If Keystone inserts are desired, then you will also need to select Hex Inserts which will allow the Adaptiplate™ Connectors to be inserted into Keystone Plates.

If Keystone plates are used, standard matching Voice and Data jacks are also available.

Once the wall plates have been selected, simply select the desired Connectors for your specific application. RCA connectors are available with a variety of color inserts and are suitable for all audio, video, digital and HDTV applications. "F" connectors and speaker binding posts are available as well.

All that is left then is to select the necessary Cover Plate for the number of decora inserts used.

Again, all plates and inserts and fully compatible with standard Leviton and Tyton Hellermann devices and may be combined with other low voltage terminations.

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