Ardent Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Hey all! I wanted to post this for those of you had problems as well. I will tell you what I did and it seemed the easiest for the non-electric and solder savvy. Is your rear speaker wires too short for the room and you want to mount them somewhere or just have them further back? Go out and buy from Radio Shack: 1. 60 Feet (Or depending on what you need) of 18 gauge speaker wire. It shouldn't run more than 5 dollars. 2. 2 Gold Plated Solderless 1/8 Mono Mini Phone plugs (Cat No. 274-868) Instructions: 1. Ok, well 60 feet is way too much for 1 speaker. Measure it out and split it so you have at least 2 pieces of 30 feet. That should do for most cases, as it did for me. 2. Open up a Mono plug. Make sure to keep the PLASTIC/rubber piece in the installation process. You will have the plug, the coil, the rubber piece, and the screw on base. Make sure to put the coil down the wire first, then the screw on base, then the rubber piece. 3. Ok now you see the plug? Work with that. There is a longer conductor. That is the Ground or the Negative. The shorter one is the Positive connection. Do not let them touch at all in the process. Also keep consistent with these connections and the ones behind your subwoofer. There is a white line on the speaker wire to organize yourself. (My Ground/Negative was the white line) This part is tricky and had me pulling my hair out. Basically, there are tiny screws here. Loosen them. Do the Positive conductor first. Strip a little wire off the end and then split the tiny copper wires into 2 groups. Then wrap it around the tiny screw, then tighten it down. Twisting the copper wires when done makes it more secure. Also try to keep it short. Do the same with the Negative conductor too. Like I said, it is delicate work. (In other words, a pain in the ***) 4. Lastly, and MOST importantly!!! See that rubber piece I told you of before? Well pull that up over your work. Still make sure they aren't touching when they are encased in the clear rubber plastic. Then you can pull up the screw on base and the coil will come with it. Screw it all together... and Voila! This should work. I made the error of forgetting the rubber piece and it was just as good as having the wires touching each other. But after I made sure nothing was touching and the clear rubber encased the whole thing, it worked. As for this midrange and sound quality or whatever. I didn't notice much a difference other than it sounds a little better cause rear speakers are farther back to actually hear. Good luck with it all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardent Posted March 22, 2001 Author Share Posted March 22, 2001 Has this helped anyone at all? I know this is a common question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asudhir Posted March 22, 2001 Share Posted March 22, 2001 Yes, it is going to help me (future tense) because I plan on doing this soon. Thanks. *zen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billie Jean Posted March 22, 2001 Share Posted March 22, 2001 If I keep on using my pro sats this will help me a lot, but I will probably get different sats. But guess waht? I've got about 40 ft of Monster Cable from my old HT setup so I'm going to use that. That should produce a kick azz sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slicyr Posted March 22, 2001 Share Posted March 22, 2001 you kick *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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