Are normal cables good enough?
I am in the process of having my house built right now and they have to prewire it for surrounds soon. The wires have to go under the hardwood floors and then up the back wall so there is quite some distance that needs to be covered (aprox 45 feet for each speaker in the rears). Would some normal 16 gauge cables work? Do I need to go with 12 gauge or do I even need to go with some of the speciality cables that I see you guys talk about some on this forum. I simply did not know if they were needed and if they would make a difference.
I have a lot of feet to cover so I did not want to break the bank!
thanks guys
Perhaps we have a failure to commuicate here...
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Originally Posted by crash32
notice that some of the wires have speical coating on them and connectors......are they necessary?
What do you mean by the bolded print? That's what I was referring to.
How do you envision these wires coming out of the walls?
In-wall cables don't have "connectors" in the sense of banana plugs, spade lugs and the like. They end in bare wires that are connected to plates you mount in the wall, into which you would plug your speaker wires..