?s about the 4.1s (online order, wires, wall bracket, etc)

[Spooon69]

I'm planning on buying the Klipsch 4.1s next week from Newegg.com (good place to buy them? or do people have any "stories"; they're $239 shipped there...) and was thinking about upgrading the speaker wire using the tips from http://www.soundwise.org (great site by the way).

I want to get the 14-Gauge Megacable brand from Radioshack, but don't know exactly what cat# they would be and if I would be buying the correct ones. I don't know anything about making my own speaker cables or types of cables and such. Here is what I found from Radioshack.com: Cat.#: 278-1273. Are these the correct ones?

Also, I want to buy 4 wall brackets for the speakers to put up in my room, but the Klipsch online store seems to be sold out of them. Where can I buy some wall mounts for the satellies? I checked the "DigitalDiva Wall MountZ v1.0" but they don't look that pleasing to my eyes.

For the wall mounts, I don't think my apartment has wooden studs (metal according to my housemates), so how heavy are the satellites? will I be able to mount them on my wall? any tips?

Thanks all.

[Velicos]

#1: Newegg.com is THE best online computer parts store to purchase from, with my side job I have ordered ~$25,000 of parts from them and not ONE hicup.

#2: If you want upgraded speaker wire (http://store.klipsch.com/list.asp?CtgID=2) pick up the Monster 4.1 Upgrade. They make such a difference, more than I ever thought they were.

#3:Wall brackets? I'm all ears here, I'm in a dorm so I can't put anything in my walls so my rear channel has pretty ****ty placement and the room is a acoustic catasrophe.

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On 10/26/2002 10:13:05 PM Spooon69 wrote:

I'm planning on buying the Klipsch 4.1s next week from Newegg.com (good place to buy them? or do people have any "stories"; they're $239 shipped there...) and was thinking about upgrading the speaker wire using the tips from

http://www.soundwise.org

(great site by the way).

I want to get the 14-Gauge Megacable brand from Radioshack, but don't know exactly what cat# they would be and if I would be buying the correct ones. I don't know anything about making my own speaker cables or types of cables and such. Here is what I found from Radioshack.com: Cat.#: 278-1273. Are these the correct ones?

Also, I want to buy 4 wall brackets for the speakers to put up in my room, but the Klipsch online store seems to be sold out of them. Where can I buy some wall mounts for the satellies? I checked the "DigitalDiva Wall MountZ v1.0" but they don't look that pleasing to my eyes.

For the wall mounts, I don't think my apartment has wooden studs (metal according to my housemates), so how heavy are the satellites? will I be able to mount them on my wall? any tips?

Thanks all.

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[Spooon69]

#2: If you want upgraded speaker wire (

http://store.klipsch.com/list.asp?CtgID=2

) pick up the Monster 4.1 Upgrade. They make such a difference, more than I ever thought they were.

$60 is a bit much for cables. I'm sure there exists a similar non-monster brand for less. I checked the do-it-yourself cable tutorial on soundwise and added up how much I would need to spend to buy the items necessary to make the cables, it came out to around $50+, thats mainly because the only items that I have available to me are the paper towels and the philips screwdriver.

So does anybody know of a non-monster brand of high quality cable I can use for the Promedias that can be bought off the shelf?

Thanks again.

[noobzilla]

I went to Canadian Tire and picked up some 16 gauge RCA home theatre speaker wire, it seems to work pretty well. It's supposed to be oxygen-free.

[xlklipsch]

Circuit city now have 4.1 system for $199 with free shipping.