Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Problems with wiring....should I solder?

I understand where you're coming from, it can get tight w/ multiple wires in a junction box. Here's some options.

1) How wide is the junction box? Is it a single box? If so, you can cut a bigger hole in the wall and replace it w/ a double or triple box and use dummy plates to cover what you don't use. That'll give you more routing space. As long as there's no other AC wires or plumbing behind the wall, it's pretty easy to cut drywall. Unless your wall is brick or concrete...

2) I use Leviton quickport speaker terminals and they have a more thinner profile. I just screwed the wires on the back side. I use pretty stiff 12 ga too.

3) From your pix, it looks like that circuit board gives you options to insert the speaker wires on the gold contacts (holes). Why not unscrew and remove that circuit board completely? Then just wire to the banana jacks directly? That'll shrink up the profile and shouldn't be a problem. You'll also get rid of another stage of connectors, which is better anyways.