I am looking for some advice or better yet some real world experience. I have a 7.1 setup in a basement HT. MY L/C/R front speakers were mounted on the wall close to the top of the ceiling... about two feet below. I have recently bought some floor standing speakers and need to get the speaker wire closer to the floor, but the wire is too short. About 10 feet short on all lines. I like a clean look so would like the wires as close to level with the new speaker plugs as possible so you do not see them.
The three speaker wires are running together (not tide together) and feed each outlet. Now for the tricky part. My rack is at 9 oclock if you are facing the screen. The speaker wire run on top of air conditioning vent and make a 90 degree turn and feed the three speakers.
What would be the best way to re-run the wire?
1. Securely tape the new speaker wire to the wire at reciever/rack and pull all the way through? Then get a fish and feed up behind dry wall and tape the speaker wire up there and pull down through a new opening at speaker plug level?
2. Just the opposite as above. Tape at speaker outlet and pull from back of my rack. that would be a 90 degree left turn instead of right
One other idea is try and run the fish wire through the current speaker whole and hopefully it will do a 90 degree left turn and pop out of rack. That would require me to do it three times. The rack has an open "roof" where are all the wires come down from.
Here is a picture of my screen if standing with the rack to the left.
Hope this makes sense.
The three speaker wires are running together (not tide together) and feed each outlet. Now for the tricky part. My rack is at 9 oclock if you are facing the screen. The speaker wire run on top of air conditioning vent and make a 90 degree turn and feed the three speakers.
What would be the best way to re-run the wire?
1. Securely tape the new speaker wire to the wire at reciever/rack and pull all the way through? Then get a fish and feed up behind dry wall and tape the speaker wire up there and pull down through a new opening at speaker plug level?
2. Just the opposite as above. Tape at speaker outlet and pull from back of my rack. that would be a 90 degree left turn instead of right
One other idea is try and run the fish wire through the current speaker whole and hopefully it will do a 90 degree left turn and pop out of rack. That would require me to do it three times. The rack has an open "roof" where are all the wires come down from.
Here is a picture of my screen if standing with the rack to the left.
Hope this makes sense.
