Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Thanks for the help!

I finally made up my mind and ordered the M60's, QS8's and the VP100's.

I ordered the SVS 20-39 PCi and a Harmon Kardon 630 receiver.

All I need to get now is the wiring, any tips on that?

I sure hope everything arrives at the same time!!!

well, alright man.. you have made some wise choices.. i guess we helped you real good.

as far as speaker wire, you cant go wrong with simple home depot 12 gauge wire at .29 cents a foot. you can get by with 14 gauge, as long as your runs arent over 20-25 feet. now your component cables, thats a lot bigger beast.. almost everyone has their own opinion, and not to many agree. i use the fusion cables from radioshack, had no problem with them.. blue jeans cables are very popular, and even axiom makes cables. just dont use the cheap, thin ones that you get for free in electronic equip.. those are low grade, bottom of the barrel. be prepared to spend at least another $75-$150 bucks on cables.. depending on how many units you have to hook up.

bigjohn

Another good place for cables is partsexpress.com

Particularly the Dayton line of interconnects from PartsExpress. I use 'em, and I like 'em. They are moderately priced. Not cheap, certainly, but not "monster"ously expensive, either.

I ordered a Blue Jeans sub-woofer cable. I had a 12 foot Monster Cable and wanted to move my sub, so I returned the Monster and ordered a 25' cable from Blue Jeans at almost 1/2 the cost. Great cable with very high-quality Canare RCA connections (much better than the Monster Cable).

You shouldn't have to spend a lot for 12 guage speaker cable. Try Parts Express (I got this 100' spool there and its very good) or HD as suggested in other posts. But as suggested, don't skimp on the component interconnects. I think Blue Jeans is a lot like Axiom - you don't have to pay a lot to get great quality.

Din, You are going to be sooooo happy! I have the exact same setup.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Michael_A

Din, you haven't completely described what cables you need, but certainly you'll need speaker wire, so if you haven't already done so this explanation by a well-respected veteran audio professional should be studied. Inexpensive wire in a suitable gauge can be had, as the other replies mentioned, from local sources such as Home Depot or online sources such as Parts Express.

As far as interconnects, since manufacturers don't sabotage their own products, any cables you might get included with a player, etc. are fully adequate in most cases. The cable for the sub and any others you might need is usually suggested to be a coaxial cable(although this is a bit of overkill unless interference in the area is very heavy)and for that you shouldn't at a maximum need to spend more than the Dayton cables at Parts Express run.

JohnK,

Thanks for that link. Good read. I can understand why there isn't more of this kind of literature in the mags.

Hey Din. Looks like you got quite the rig set up to blow your mind right out of the room. And that's no lie My one contribution to this thread is simply a tip. As a H/K 630 user I learned something while fiddling with my reciever the other day. There's a setting on the receiver when you go into the OSD (On Screen Display). Go to Speaker Setup, then go to X-Over. In there is another menu with a selection for LFE. It allows you to make settings for one channel (Center, Surrounds, etc). I've done some testing on it and I'll tell you straight up. Put it to center (or you can put it on left/right, but IMHO center just fits a little better). I noticed a huge appearance of my subwoofer suddenly on scenes like the ring drop in Fellowship played in DTS. I used to think that only DD had that bassy drop and explosion. Not anymore.
My other tip is in regards to matching your SVS with you H/K. I have an SVS and their manual suggests that you set all your speakers to small, so that the sub takes over the rest. Well...true, the H/K has a robust bass management, and if you set all your speakers to small your sub will sound fantastic, but you lose something in all your other speakers (it seems to thin them out a little). I have all my speakers set to large. Your welcome to experiment, but I've found it's not worth the sacrifice. If you make enough adjustments, such as the tip above, you'll get it to sound virtually as good in the sub department and you'll get your Axioms to sound the absolute best. Enjoy the good sounds

Thanks guys,

I am new to this, and the advice is greatly appreciated. I did have a concern with setting the speakers to small.

I thought that if I set them to large, and then set all four crossovers to 80 that may be a good starting point. I thought that the x-over was just a way you could set the speakers to be, "kinda" small. Instead of just setting them as small and sending all the low frequencies to the sub, set the x-over and still send all the low end to the sub, but still send some to the mains, centre, and rear.

Let me know if I don't understand this correctly. I think I will be playing around alot this weekend. I sure hope everything gets here on time (and at the same time!!)