Hello! I'm building onto my existing house, and I pre-wired one room
with speaker wire for a "surround sound" effect. (I plan to put a
speaker in each corner of the room, and the wires for these speakers
are now running inside the completed walls.)

Unfortunately, I now realize that my speaker wires are about 3 feet
too short, and so they don't extend to quite the right spot in the
room where I want to put my audio stack.

I _could_ put the stack in the spot were the four speaker wires come
out of the wall all together, but -- and this is my question -- would
it cause any obvious loss of audio quality to merely _add_ another
three feet of speaker wire between each short wire and the back of my
stack by just "splicing" the ends of the wires together (that is, by
twisting them around each other and wrapping them in electrical
tape)???

Your opinions will be greatly appreciated. (Oh, and FYI, this won't
be a super-expensive colossal audio system . . . just a medium-grade
system meant to sound "good" to an average, ordinary listener . . . in
other words, I'm not an all-out audiophile, but I do care a fair
amount about sound quality.)

Thanks!

Shane

CajunUSA a écrit :

Hello,
The worst thing which can happens is to place your speakers at a wrong
place !
Do you have already test your room to find the best place for your
speakers ?
No ? So I suggest you to CLEANLY add 6 or 7 feets of speaker wire in
order to be able to move speakers after you will have installed
furnitures...
Loss of audio due to cable is really a "psychosomatic" problem compare
to badly placed speakers.

Lionel

(CajunUSA) wrote in
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Hello! I'm building onto my existing house, and I pre-wired one room
with speaker wire for a "surround sound" effect. (I plan to put a
speaker in each corner of the room, and the wires for these speakers
are now running inside the completed walls.)

Unfortunately, I now realize that my speaker wires are about 3 feet
too short, and so they don't extend to quite the right spot in the
room where I want to put my audio stack.

I _could_ put the stack in the spot were the four speaker wires come
out of the wall all together, but -- and this is my question -- would
it cause any obvious loss of audio quality to merely _add_ another
three feet of speaker wire between each short wire and the back of my
stack by just "splicing" the ends of the wires together (that is, by
twisting them around each other and wrapping them in electrical
tape)???

Your opinions will be greatly appreciated. (Oh, and FYI, this won't
be a super-expensive colossal audio system . . . just a medium-grade
system meant to sound "good" to an average, ordinary listener . . . in
other words, I'm not an all-out audiophile, but I do care a fair
amount about sound quality.)

Thanks!

Shane


Unless you are using a wire guage smaller than 16, you shouldn't have any
problems.