Wiring a Whole house System
I'm trying to help my daughter wire her house for stereo. She has purchased a Yamaha RX 797 receiver/amp along with Energy EAS series speakers as well as a Quest QLS4.1 Loudspeaker switcher. Three rooms have 2 single speakers while two rooms have a single Energy Speaker(it functions as two speakers). Each room has a volume control.
Originally the salesman told her that she should run one cable(2 conductor) to each volume control. The volume control has 4 input terminals and 4 output terminals. When I questioned the salesman some time ago on how to run two speakers off of the volume control he told me that I should run the speakers in parallel (in other words the positive cables from the two speakers should be joined together and the negative cables should be joined together)
Yesterday I again enquired as to the proper way to wire this and was told that I needed to have two cables(each with 2 conductors) going to each volume control in order to have both left and right channels. So I added one more cable to each run and I now have 4 wires going to each volume control and 2 wires going to each separate speaker from the volume control.
By adding the 4 additional wires I now have a problem where the wires from the Quest Switcher go into the wall. I installed a single gang electrical box to which I was going to install a faceplate that had 8 plugs on it. I now have 16 wires to plug in and can't install another electrical box.
Can someone tell me if I need 4 conductors to each volume control? Would I get the proper performance using 2 conductors and hooking the speakers in parallel.
I don't want to compromise the performance of the system.
Thanks in advance.
Fred Mc.