Getting speaker wires from one end of the lounge to the other

NeilF

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So we're having our lounge kicked around. I have two surround speakers in the far end of the lounge, so plan to get wiring to the them in a nice fashion. Should I:-
  • Put terminals on the walls at both ends of the room (obviously wired togethor) so I can connect the amp to one set of terminals, and the surrounds to the set at the end of the lounge, so as to get their audio there?
  • Just skip the terminals and run say 10m of good raw cable coming out of the skirting boards basically where the terminals would have been, so as to plug directly into the amp, and directly into the surrounds speaker?
Terminals are obviously tidier, but are they prone to noticable signal loss at the terminals etc?

Any thoughts?
 
Do you have a crawl space or concrete floors, I've got concrete so I just ran cable under the carpet, its noticeable if you step om it, but the cable crosses a walk in bay so doesn't get much foot traffic, if you do this don't do what I did and cut the cable for the wrong speaker so there's no slack :rolleyes::p.
 
theone8181 said:
Do you have a crawl space or concrete floors, I've got concrete so I just ran cable under the carpet, its noticeable if you step om it, but the cable crosses a walk in bay so doesn't get much foot traffic, if you do this don't do what I did and cut the cable for the wrong speaker so there's no slack :rolleyes::p.
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Going to be new LVT on floorboards in the room in question. Skirting top be replaced, and a whole exterior wall coming down and being rebuilt. So the room is being seriously kicked. So the cables can be put under the floor boards or behind the new skirting etc... Question is in what guise.

I'll do the same with ethernet, but suspect I'll just have a long ethernet cable coming out from behind the skirting (& not a port). If it ever transpires the cable is in the wrong place, cutting it at the skirting board will be easier than removing a whole socket on the wall.
 
I’d go terminals, degradation will be pretty inaudible.

(you’d be surprised how bad the internal wiring etc is even in exceptional speakers!)
 
I'd definitely go for terminals if it's being run properly. Cables are prone to damage particularly where they come out the wall so you could end up with an un-usable cable. Also terminals means in the future you can always install longer cables, or even remove the kit completely without wires hanging down.

When I ran speaker cable round the room I soldered the speaker cable to the terminals then used banana plugs to connect between the terminals and the speakers, works great.
 
Abyss said:
I'd definitely go for terminals if it's being run properly. Cables are prone to damage particularly where they come out the wall so you could end up with an un-usable cable. Also terminals means in the future you can always install longer cables, or even remove the kit completely without wires hanging down.

When I ran speaker cable round the room I soldered the speaker cable to the terminals then used banana plugs to connect between the terminals and the speakers, works great.
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Makes sense! Thanks!
 
This is what I've done in the living room. The room isn't quite finished but gives a good idea. Ignore the bargain basement subwoofer RCA, it was the first cable I could find to test it all out! I also need to buy shorter banana plugs for the wallplate end.






 
Abyss said:
This is what I've done in the living room. The room isn't quite finished but gives a good idea. Ignore the bargain basement subwoofer RCA, it was the first cable I could find to test it all out! I also need to buy shorter banana plugs for the wallplate end.






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Very neet... Although I wouldn't be brave enough to put the speaker ports at the rear speakers... I'll run them to the middle of the rear wall, and just run the wires to them...

So I just need a pair of ports with four connectors, which I can just screw bare speaker wires into...


I need to run ethernet cable some rooms too, so I'll see if the electrician can mount some ethernet sockets too!
 
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