DRUBE

Here is the next chapter on my lovely subwoofer issue from last week. The electrician says the wire is a 16/4 speaker wire that works fine for subwoofers (but only if it is a passive subwoofer!!!) The friendly folks at Klipsch (very very helpful by the way) said if I can't fish an RG-6 with RCA heads through the ceiling, here is what to do: At the subwoofer: Twist the wires into pairs and connect. At the receiver: Use two banana plugs and connect the same wires into my main Left and Right speakers. Klipsch said it may affect my LFE-only effect, but performance will be okay. Thank you Klipsch for your guidance. Anyone else care to weigh in?

Thanks. Fishing down the wire will be my preference, if they didn't secure the wires to the beams in the ceiling. I can't believe they used phone cable!!!!

Great forum, everyone. But this neophyte needs help!!! My electrician ran a cable for me through the ceiling for my RSW-10 subwoofer to connect to my Denon 3805 receiver in our new basement. But here is the catch: the cable he ran is not an RCA or a normal speaker wire, it is four shielded wires (black, white, green, red)I think that is used for CAT-5 installations. What can I do? The hook up for the RSW-10 has four posts, so I can + -/+ - for those four wires. But the Denon only has a plug for the subwoofer. What would you do if you were me (besides fire the electrician)?

Does anyone have an opinion about matching RB-25s, RC-25 and RCR-3s and RW-8 sub for a surround sound home theater package? I would team it with either a Yamaha rxv-1400 or an Onkyo 601 or 701 and the Samsung 61-inch DLP. Let me add...we are putting the RB-25s and the RC-25 in built-ins in the front, and my other half really doesn't want the rears to be visible...thus we are putting them in the ceiling for aesthetics. Are we making a big mistake?