Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners speaker wire runs in a new house

Thanks Mojo,

I guess it would depend on how far the sub is from the point of termination on the wall where it would convert to a coax patch to the sub. No way to know for sure at this point so it's probably a very good point to play it safe.

I find my 500 causes more noise issues than it receives. For a short time it was sitting inches from two runs of coax feeding my satellite dish receiver. During big LFE events I was seeing distortion in my picture. Easily fixed by just adding a few more inches of distance.

Even more humorous was when I was having frustrating issues with my universal remote and IR Blaster. I'd would hit buttons on my remote and nothing would happen or unexpected results would occur. First I thought it was weak batteries. After a frustrating hour of troubleshooting, I discovered that the little red led on my IR blaster was not only flickering out of control but was also keeping time with the bass hits in the concert I was playing.

The IR blaster was sitting on a shelf about 2 feet away from the sub and maybe a foot or two higher vertically. Moving it up one shelf level solved my problem.

I agree, use RG-6 for the sub cable(s). Much easier, cheaper and just as good as buying an expensive 50 foot cable.

It actually doesn't depend on distance at all. The fact that the cable is terminated with a plastic connector introduces the risk of interference. Stray noise in the room (even from your lights or dimmer switches) can find its way through the plastic connector.

Maybe I'll do the RG6 for the sub just from a time standpoint. Easier to find that local in a long enough run to have for installation tomorrow.

If any of you guys were local I'd see if you wanted to come join the fun!

I'd be there in a second. I like to pull wires.

So no luck at home depot for 12 gauge in wall. I have one other home depot to try, otherwise I may have to go with 14 gauge. No luck so far on longer than a 25' sub cable, so I may end up with the coax option there.

The other home depot had cables. I have 120' of 12 gauge and 100' of RG6. The RG6 has no ends on it, which I can leave that way for now, but I'll need some more input on how to turn these into something I can plug into the sub. Do they go directly into the wall plate without anything on the end and then the other side of the wall plate has a normal sub connector that runs a short sub cable from the wall to the sub?

I may take my current 25' sub cable and try to run that, but I don't think it will reach.

I couldn't get the 12 gauge Home Depot in wall either so I ran their 14 gauge. I have no problems what so ever. My longest run is 24'. You will be fine with it, unless you have an extremely long run.

The other home depot had 12, so I was ok. I went this morning and ran the cables. I only had time to do the two surrounds and one RG6 for a sub.

I brought my drill, but both batteries were dead, which meant I could only use existing holes. As a result, the speaker wire is running next to the electric wire. I'm hoping this doesn't cause an issue.

Thanks to everyone for your help. Now if we could just sell the existing house we'd be in great shape! Anyone want to move to King of Prussia, PA?

I was forced to run a side surround next to an electrical line for a foot or so and haven't had issues with that speaker in the almost two years we've had our room.

Yours is looking good!