Hello everyone, well it's the weekend again and that means time to tinker with my system .

I am going to do the "subwoofer crawl" today and I am in need of a cable that is around 5m.

Is there any difference in cables? or is the cheaper RCA cable ok to use?
I can get a cable for $30 or a Monster cable for $99. I thought that being analog and not digital it didn't matter.

Save your money and buy the $30 one. The price difference is in the marketing.

I'll second that. Go for the less expensive cable. You will not notice a difference, and why fork your money over to someone just for advertising....

The subwoofer signal is one of the least demanding audio/video signals to carry and doesn't demand much at all other than a decently shielded wire. Go cheap, be happy.

Jason

$6.16 at Monoprice

But then you'd have to wait. Which would be a total bummer.

Sure, rub it in Tom.

Get some cheap coax with rca ends like sold on monoprice or bluejeans cable, don't waste your money unless your loaded.

Well that takes care of that then

Thanks a lot for the quick replies.

Well I bought a cable and I did the crawl, but did not really notice all that much difference? The bass seems to sound better when I am in the next room??

I ended up moving the sub to the opposite corner. I will have to give it some time and a coupl of decent movies to see how it sounds I think.

I had to format my pc and reinstall everything today and I have been listening to Pink Floyd which makes it more the process seem a little better

Oh my - the PC format and subsequent program reinstallation has to be one of the most annoying tasks ever...

On the crawl - if you didn't notice much difference as you moved it around, it could just mean your room has good acoustics and aren't producing vast peaks and nulls. That's good news.

Jason

Well I watched a movie last night Big Fish and it sounded quite good with a decent amount of base that was not distorted or over the top.

I have a couple of rattles though we have Glass cabinets and they tend to rattle a bit, I have no idea how to fix that. Also one window rattles its the non opening side.

Apart from that things are improving

Easy, break the glass - no more rattle

If they're fixed glass (in cabinet doors, for instance), glazing them in with putty may help... if they're sliding panes of safety glass in tracks, I wouldn't suggest doing that.

Bren R.

with fixed glass, you can also use a toothpick (or more than one) wedged into the space between the glass and frame. Score and snap off the excess.

It's fixed glass. Thanks for the tips, I will try them. It is driving me crazy.

Smash it, Smash it, SMAsh IT, SMASH IT!

Don't tempt me