digthis Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Hey. This is my story! When I built my house I prewired it for speakers,,,shoulda,hada,dona this and that, didn't use pvc pipe in the walls {dumb arse!}any way I had the system set-up for adjacent walls in case I ever moved furniture around, WELL!!! when I did get around to moving furniture the wires on the side I would have used for the front speakers don't work {checked physically} and used a dmm which said the speakers were basically OK!!! via bailing wire with gator clip ends hooked to each side of same speaker wire {looped} This indicated that the speaker wires worked! Don't know if bailing wire would work! but that's the longest wire I had at the time! bottom line physically the speaker wires don't work! for some unforeseen reason{nails, kinks,} whatever nough said,,,,,,, So anyway another event took place after I bought another receiver the speakers on that side{ surround at the time} quit working,,, could of had something to do with being under powered, receiver Sony 1011, 30 watts on surround side pushing klipsch quintets 50 watts contintueous, the 2 quintets are out of warranty,,,,,so the question is WWHEWWW! Do I buy klipsch bookshelf speakers with stands or maybe floorstanders since I don't have no wires in the wall to use now [ don't know if I can pull old wires through since I softly big stapled wires in center of 2x4's to keep them from getting hit by nails and such!} back to pvc Pipe{dumb arse}anyway since I have the rest of the quintet set-up 2 surrrounds and 10' sub with center channel and a denon 2105 receiver I'd like to keep it close to sonically matching the quintet set-up, TIA digthis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwoods Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hi, can't you just pull new wires? You shouldn't blame the Kinks or Nine Inch Nails.... it just ain't right. Blame it on the Stones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 ---------------- On 2/13/2005 7:34:37 AM digthis wrote: don't know if I can pull old wires through since I softly big stapled wires in center of 2x4's to keep them from getting hit by nails and such! ---------------- Ouch. Contractor's advice (I know, too late, right?) - always drill through the studs and run the wire through the holes. Your staples are likely what caused the wire failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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