Re: Adding length to speaker wires

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Install the wire in-wall and use wallplates with spring clips in them.  Cut
the wire are the speaker and run that to the wall plate.  At the receiver,
use the other end of the clipped wire to run from that wall plate back to
the receiver.

If it's using such a paltry wire gauge and proprietary connectors then it's
likely a crappy system anyway.  What is it, a Bose?

Use 14 gauge, that way you'll have decent wire in there when you get around
to buying a better solution.  But even if you don't go in-wall, use the
higher gauge.  Electric extension cord wire is an acceptable cheap solution
for a cheap system.  With the higher gauge you won't, at least, lose volume
and clarity due to the loss caused by the added distance.

-Bill Kearney

> The speaker wire that came with my rear surround sound speakers is not
> long enough for the room in which I am installing.  The wire is hard-
> wired to the speaker and it has a special connector at the end that
> goes into the receiver.  I want to try to splice in more length in the
> middle but have a few concerns before I start
> The factory wire is 22 guage.  Do I need the same exact guage when
> splicing?  It seems like this is a really uncommon thickness.  Also,
> some of the wire is going to be running either under carpet or in
> wall.  All of the in-wall speaker wire I have found is around 14
> guage.  How can I most effectively accomplish what I'm trying to do?