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fastreddie
fastreddie Posts: 6
edited March 2004 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
Is tinning the wires recommended on all connections?
Also, how can I best determine speaker placement with angled walls, etc.? Thanx
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Never have tinned speaker wire. Don't believe it's necessary...

    Need a pic or a room description before I disagree with ATC on the 2nd question...:D
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • fastreddie
    fastreddie Posts: 6
    edited March 2004
    Basically my room has an entertainment niche and I ran conduit in the walls before the drywall.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    OK, but the question is where are the angled walls, etc., vs. where you'd like to place the speakers?
    More later,
    Tour...
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    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
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  • fastreddie
    fastreddie Posts: 6
    edited March 2004
    Basically my room has an entertainment niche and I ran conduit in the walls before the drywall so I could run sats on the front and back walls/ceiling.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Image might have been a little too big there, sparky...

    Feels like I'm peeking in through the blinds... not that I've ever done that...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
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    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2004
    Well I was going to post some pictures here, and try it like SID the KID has said he was doing. The is a large picture and some software here on this forum was compressing the picture that he post's....

    As this picture is a large pixel / large memory size and the broad killed the picture in short.


    O well that kills that question in my mind...






    Originally posted by Tour2ma
    Image might have been a little too big there, sparky...

    Feels like I'm peeking in through the blinds... not that I've ever done that...

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  • fastreddie
    fastreddie Posts: 6
    edited March 2004
    Sorry I had a few tech difficulties. Let me try that pic again. Got a kick out of your comment about the blinds...
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Closer to it...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    edited March 2004
    Dude.....

    Talk about placement challenged.....

    :eek:

    I dont know how you could actually go around that...

    Bookshelves, swivel(sp) brackets?

    Dang......

    Disney,
    I use PSP, JPG - nothing special bro! - here is what the camera can do with good light ;)http://www.alektra.com/00_00035.JPG
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    edited March 2004
    Man, you have a couple of options here...

    1) Place the bookshelfs on the straight wall directly above the TV...............................

    2) Place a bookshelf on the slanted wall on a swivel bracket ahead of the tv, then another bookshelf on the straight wall, invest in a SPL meter and go happy......

    That is a REALLY challenging room.......

    How far away are you seated from the main stage? More options could be there if you are pretty far back...
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • fastreddie
    fastreddie Posts: 6
    edited March 2004
    I will be sitting about 12 feet and I already have Polk satillites
    that I thought I would mount on the ceiling/wall.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    edited March 2004
    You could definetely work with the ceiling....

    Since you are about 12 feet back...

    I would mount one at the beginning (opposite side of tv) on the slanted wall, then the right side of the door frame at the ceiling and angle at your main listening positions. *YOU WILL NEED A SPL METER*.

    That is my take. Hope that helps.

    Are you mounting the center channel on the ceiling also? or above the tv?
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • fastreddie
    fastreddie Posts: 6
    edited March 2004
    Vr3, thanks for the input I'll definately check into the
    SPL meter. I found some swivel mounts that I think I can make work. Probably will put the center on top of the TV.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    If that fireplace is for real, it is going to compromise the left channel placement.

    Even if it didn't, with the wall at that angle I don't think in-walls will rotate far enough to center the image across the room and in front of the TV...

    Very tough room there...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
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    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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