Will this method work

Willow

My wife and I have been trying to clean up the look of the front of our living room where 90% of the gear and speakers are. She asked if I could move the sub to the back of the room. My comment was "do you want a thick cable visible from front to back?" . Then I thought about it, came up with this:
can I use speaker cable line in with the rears and set the rears to large? Would I get the same fullness as I curently do but using the rears?

She loves the look of the rti8 but she claims the sub to be to large, I asked (I knew the answer, but had to ask) "Do you want me to get a new sub?" The sub is quite large four the wall that we are using it makes that side of the wall (with all the gear) look cramed, more so with the 8's and the Sub on the same side.

Thanks

AsSiMiLaTeD

Hell no that won't work. All of the LFE stuff is either in the LFE channel or in the front left and right if LFE is not used and fronts are set to large.

You may get some bass in the surrounds, but not much is mastered back there. It won't sound right.

Can you run the sub cable under the baseboard or carpet?

Willow

Darn! I thought there might be a problem. Grrr. I can't run the cable uder baseboards or carpet. 1- the fireplace is in the way on the only side which we could run it and the trim around the marble in front of the fire place had to be epoxied (if a word).I can't move. Looks like we are (she is) SOL
Just means I don't have to move crap.

McLoki

Do you have a basement or are you in an apartment?

If you have a basement you can drill a small hole (from the basement up) and then put a slit in the carpet. You can run a long cable through that and come up behind the sub. When you move it, push the carpet back down and the hole should be invisible.

Michael

Willow

Thanks, the prob is that the semi-basement is where the masterB-room. we have a garden home. all the b-rooms are in the semi-basment.

Mjr7531

What receiver are you running? Harmon-Kardon receivers have the option of rerouting the signal to a channel set of your designation I beleive. IE: Fronts, rears, sides, etc.

Emlyn

Willow wrote:

Just means I don't have to move crap.

You've found the perfect solution.