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Ok, here is one I just finished paying for. I've just finished building a home theater that has all the speakers & entertainment cabinet built into a false wall. If you are standing looking at the wall, on the far right you have a closet that actually provides access to the space behind the false wall, then moving right to left you have the front right speaker cabinet, then the entertainment center cabinet, then the left front speaker cabinet, and then finally the sub-woofer cabinet on the far left. I ran speaker wire from all the speaker cabinets to the component section of the entertainment center prior to permanently installing the cabinets.

Well, I received my EP500 in the mail yesterday and today I hooked it up to my Denon in the office just to test that it works. It works great, sounds superb, BUT as I wired it up I realized that it takes TWO speaker wires not one. Yep, that's right, that sub-woofer cabinet, on the far left of the room, in the most inaccessible place, only has one wire going to it.

So I just spent the last hour fixing the situation. I bout a 50' length of audiquest 14AWG and doubled it over and taped the end in a loop. Then hooked the end of the wire coming out of the speaker cabinet through that loop. Then, starting at the closet on the far right of the room, i wormed my way over the right front speaker cabinet then worked my way up the two walls until i could get up on top of the entertainment center. So now i'm on my stomach on top of the entertainment center, about 10' off the floor, behind the wall, squirming my way along inch by inch toward the sub-woofer cabinet. Hanging off the far end of the entertainment center i can pull the existing wire up and over, eventually pulling the doubled over length up to me. From there I started inching myself backwards until I finally got the doubled over length hanging down the back of the cabinet.

With all that done, I inch my way backwards and eventually get down off the entertainment center and back out of the closet. Back in the room I pull the cable through into the room and loop it all up to call the job done. As I'm taping up the loop I notice the directional arrows on the wire jacket and of course one of the two lengths is pointing the "wrong" direction. I consider for a moment doing this all over again, pause, and then say the hell with it, tuck the coil into the back off the shelf and turn off the lights. FYI - right now I'm itching like heck from the insulation.