Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater QS4 mounting and wire question

If I am interpreting your question correctly, I suggest you mount an electrical box every where a wire is going to come out. Run the wire into the box with enough spare for your speakers outside. This will force them to cut a hole in the correct location, as they would for any other box, be it lights, power, etc. They are only a couple of bucks each.

If you are flush mounting the speakers, you won't need the actual wall plates because the speaker will sit more flush without them. If you ever remove the speaker, you can add a wall plate to cover the hole.

Also, they make some neat plate covers with speaker jacks built in but as I said, if you are flush mounting the QS4s then you would not bother with a plate, just wire directly to the speaker and it will cover the hole.

I hope this is what you were looking for.

Actually, my issue really is that I was going to frame so that the horizontal and vertical portions of the T mounting bracket would be on studs. If I do that, and mount a box to the vertical framing that the T mounts to, I'm not sure the speaker will cover the opening, although Myrison said his did cover the box. Someone needs to come up with a smaller low voltage box for this sort of thing!

You are a true audiophile hero to actually design your stud pattern around speaker placement. heh heh.

I think a wall plate is 2" and a jigger by 4", so the box is smaller yet than that.

Checking Axiom's specs, the QS4s are 9.5" wide by 6" tall.

Therefore, even if your 2x4 stud was truly 2" wide (which they never are) the QS4 will still cover the box hole nicely with room to spare.

I don't think you're going to need more than a few screws into a stud for the bracket, as long as you use anchors for the rest of it.

Now I think I understand why public figures get upset when quoted out of context.

Ha, Good one!