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Wiring Surround Sound: Speaker Terminal Posts / Wall Plate Combo
Hello All,
Recently renovated our family room and installed speaker wire to all four corners for eventual surround sound. I have the levitron speaker posts/wall plates on the end locations that use one black and one red post for a speaker wire pair. All four wire pairs go back to a single gang box that also has one coax and one ethernet cable installed in it. Planned on using a six-gang levitron wall plate, two for the coax and ethernet and four for the speaker wire, but seems like each speaker wire needs two posts, for a total of eight posts. I can't seem to find a single speaker post that will accept both speaker wires (pos and neg), and nobody makes a 10 gang wall plate (not enough room). I was just hoping to find a clean wall plate solution and not leave the gang box uncovered with wires hanging out of it. Not knowing a whole lot about wiring speakers, would it be possible to wire all four negative sides of the speaker pairs to a single post, and use seperate posts for the positive sides of the pairs? Then I could use an eight gang plate and blank one out (five for speakers, two for cable/ethernet). I am not about to try this since I don't even have any equipment to install, just curious if this would fry something. Thanks! |
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