Home theatre/electronics question

[Silverstoned]

Can anyone tell me if I'll lose significant if any sound quality if I solder two runs of cable together? I salvaged the wire from my old house but the new place needs a little longer runs. Rather than buy 250ft of cable for 5 50ft runs that I need, I was going to splice together some of the wire I already have and just buy what I need to make up the difference. If I'm just being cheap and the sound won't be as good I'll just go buy enough to do it all without joining smaller pieces together.

[Geobmx4life]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

As long as they are the same gage, it'll be ok!

[Stonewall]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

An audiophile will tell you no, but most of them can't tell the difference between a speaker wires with a coat hanger and one with kimber cable. From my point a view a properly soldered wire will make no difference or you will likely never hear the difference. I extend wires all the time with high speed signals.

[Joker]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

Damn, 50 foot runs? I hope your wire is big or your speakers are small lol

[Geobmx4life]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

I'm assuming that the 50ft is for surround speakers...that being said, low power and not being run full range...solder won't affect the distance.

[aliencurv]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

50 feet is nothing. don't listen to keyboard experts.

[Silverstoned]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

The wire is 10G CL2 rated. The front towers are bi-amplified so 2 runs to each of the front speakers, and a fifth one for the center channel. The rear surrounds (only doing 5.1 until I swap out to in ceiling speakers) are fairly short runs. The reason for all this is that my home theatre PC and the amp are in a separate room from the home theatre to prevent any fan noise as well as minimizing the visible parts. TV mounted on wall and speakers with wall plates just behind each speaker so no wires are visible and other than that and a FM remote on the coffee table, the system is all hidden out of site.

[Joker]

Re: Home theatre/electronics question

The wire is 10G CL2 rated. The front towers are bi-amplified so 2 runs to each of the front speakers, and a fifth one for the center channel. The rear surrounds (only doing 5.1 until I swap out to in ceiling speakers) are fairly short runs. The reason for all this is that my home theatre PC and the amp are in a separate room from the home theatre to prevent any fan noise as well as minimizing the visible parts. TV mounted on wall and speakers with wall plates just behind each speaker so no wires are visible and other than that and a FM remote on the coffee table, the system is all hidden out of site.

I would have said 14 was sufficient. 10 is HUGE lol.

20 = Fire hazard
18 = Crap
16 = Good for most
14 = Good for longer runs, maybe up to 80 ft
12 = If your rich
10 = Well, never heard of anyone using 10 in the house

I just ran 14 because it's not much more then 16 price wise, it's CL2 also. Speakers are only 130W, 10 foot runs though.

Sounds like a similar set-up. I use the PS3 as the media server though so no need for a PC connection.

Wall mount FTW!



Sounds like I should of hid my crap too, a little messy in the open and the PS3 is a bit loud. The stand has a decent wire hiding system though.