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Originally Posted by showtime
I'm mounting a TV in our kitchen area. I'm planning on using a Chromecast to be able to stream to it. The kitchen and living room area all have built in speakers but the receiver is about ten feet from where the TV is going to go. Is there a way to get the audio to the receiver without using a cable?
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Your TV would need to support connecting to a Bluetooth device for audio output. Then you'd want to connect the Bluetooth adapter to the receiver. It's clunky, and you'll only get stereo sound with this method.
For ten feet, I'd find a way to run an HDMI cable through the wall.
You'll need a stud-finder. Get some HDMI wall plates and two single gang low-voltage mounting brackets from Home Depot, and get an HDMI cable much longer than you need. You can either plumb it through the wall studs (harder, requires more holes in the wall), or you can modify your baseboards to have a notch in them that'll hide the HDMI cable and run it along the floor more or less, only plumbing it through the wall when you've reached the area that the wall plates will be installed.
EDIT: You can do this so long as your TV and receiver support HDMI-ARC (Audio Return Channel). Your TV should have (ARC) after one of the HDMI port labels, same with your receiver (not all of them are labeled so look in your owner's manual or online). If either one does
not, then you'll need to use an optical audio cable or whatever your TV and receiver will both support. HDMI ARC is so commonplace now, but worth looking into if your equipment is a little older.