Having wired audio throughout your house can be a fun feature to have in your home. With this, you will have the ability to walk from room to room and still be able to listen to the same song, or even to your television. Follow these few simple steps and you will be up and running in no time.
Instructions
1. Establish a "hub" area for your audio system. This will be the area where all of your speakers lead to, as well as where your receiver will be placed.
2. Connect your speaker selector to your receiver's "B" speaker ports. Your speaker selector is what will allow you to send your audio throughout your home with the push of a button.
3. Determine where you are going to put your speakers. Once you've figured this out, you will then need to determine the best path to get the speaker wire there. If you are building a new home, this will be relatively easy. However if you are installing into an existing home, it will be more difficult. Consider drilling through walls or running wires through crawl spaces.
4. Also consider where you want to place the speakers. You can place them on top of tables, shelves or speaker stands. The best speaker is a speaker that's just out of the way. Consider purchasing speaker mounts and attaching them to the wall; these are easy to install, just follow the directions that come with them.
5. Run the wires from the speaker selector to each of your speaker locations. Be sure to leave at least six extra feet on the end of the wires; you might want to move them around someday.
6. When running wire through a room, you will want to consider placement of the wires. The best and least obtrusive place to run the wire is to place it on the baseboards, and use a staple gun to tack it in place. Other alternatives are to remove the baseboard and tuck the wire under it, or, if you have a carpeted room, pull up the edge of the carpeting and tuck it under there.
7. Connect the speakers to the wires, and the wires to the speaker selector. Turn on your "B" speakers on your receiver, and listen to the wonderful sound of whole home audio.
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