I'm building a new house and did the all the stereo and HT wiring myself. Now that the drywall is on I find I've made a serious mistake. I'm hoping the experience on this forum can help me out.
When wiring my two 5.1 rooms, I ran a single length of 14ga speaker wire from where the receiver will go to each speaker plate- including the subwoofer. Clearly, I needed to either run a subwoofer cable (for line-level input) or a pair of speaker wires (for speaker-level input, which would also involve running wire from the subwoofer location to each of the mains).
So now I face a decision: Should I (1) forget about using the plate that I had thought would drive the subwoofer and just place the subwoofer close to the receiver so I don't have to go through the wall with the cable, or (2) try to attach RCA jacks to either end of one of the wires in the existing speaker wire to carry a line-level signal, or (3) rip out the drywall and wire it like it should have been to begin with?
Help! Thanks in advance.
-Charlie
When wiring my two 5.1 rooms, I ran a single length of 14ga speaker wire from where the receiver will go to each speaker plate- including the subwoofer. Clearly, I needed to either run a subwoofer cable (for line-level input) or a pair of speaker wires (for speaker-level input, which would also involve running wire from the subwoofer location to each of the mains).
So now I face a decision: Should I (1) forget about using the plate that I had thought would drive the subwoofer and just place the subwoofer close to the receiver so I don't have to go through the wall with the cable, or (2) try to attach RCA jacks to either end of one of the wires in the existing speaker wire to carry a line-level signal, or (3) rip out the drywall and wire it like it should have been to begin with?
Help! Thanks in advance.
-Charlie