How Do You Hook Up A Sound System Through Walls?
You want to hook up a sound system. You have to go through the wall. You don’t want to hire a contractor or an electrician. Follow these steps. (If you have an attic.) • First of all, use the right wire. The correct wire for running through the walls will say CM or CMR on it. If you need to go through an air duct be sure the the wire is Plenum or CMP rated. Speaker wire should be 16 gauge, stranded and 2 conductor with one red and one black wire. Do not use your cruddy radio shack copper and aluminum wire, this is not meant for in-wall use. Don’t waste your money on Monster cable for your speaker wire; if it is 16 AWG stranded speaker wire from the hardware store it will do just as good as Monster for 1/4th the price. • Location, location, location. Put your speakers where they need to go and start examining how you could get a wire back to the main receiver. Look for your obstacles like areas that do not have a crawl space below or attic above. Doors between speaker and receiver can l
