Subwoofer connection - through the wall

tcrossma

I have a situation where I may need to move my sub to a side wall and I don't have the luxury of being able to run a cable anywhere above the floor to that location.

What i'd like to do, ideally, is put wall plates at both locations and run cable through the walls. Then use patch cables to connect from the wall plates to the receiver and sub.

The wall plates would have RCA connections I assume, and i'd use standard sub cable as the patches to the receiver and sub.

But what do I use in-wall between the two wall plates? Coax?

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

tim

miner

Eliminate the wall plate connection. use a wall plate with a hole that you can run your sub cable through.

tcrossma

So having a permanent and "finished" looking in-wall connection isn't a good idea? Is this because of performance hit that i'd get by having the multiple connections?

thanks,

tim

miner

Pretty much so. Keep the connections to a minimum.

Polkitup2

I'd go with the finshed look. I've compared my sub with a short direct subwoofer cable connection to my reciever with an in-wall setup with wall plates, connectors, and RG6 coax with many, many connections along the way and there was no audible difference in sound quality.

tcrossma

Polkitup2 wrote: »

I'd go with the finshed look. I've compared my sub with a short direct subwoofer cable connection to my reciever with an in-wall setup with wall plates, connectors, and RG6 coax with many, many connections along the way and there was no audible difference in sound quality.

So it's just RG6 in-wall with RCA plugs on the wall plates then?

Polkitup2

I used RG6 and a wall plate with a few extras, but any standard cable coax wall plate would do and then from the Parts Express website I ordered a coax to RCA adapter that I plugged the sub cable into.

tcrossma

Excellent, thanks for the info.

tim