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- Alright,

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- let's talk about getting your speakers connected.

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- You're gonna need speaker wire to go from each

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- speaker back to your A.

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- V.

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- Receiver.

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- Which means you're gonna want to label all those

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- wires which will make it much clearer which speaker

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- goes to which connector on the back of your

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- receiver.

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- So label everything.

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- That's the first and foremost thing you need to

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- know now.

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- How long should your speaker wire be?

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- Uh you're gonna wanna measure to get a rough idea

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- of how far it is your front three speakers are from

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- your receiver and of course how far your back

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- speakers are.

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- And as you measure,

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- you want to take into account things like do you

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- have to run the wire around the door?

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- Do you have to run around furniture?

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- And you might be surprised at just how long your

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- speaker wire needs to be.

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- And even when you figure it out,

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- let's say you come up with a measurement of around

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- 40 ft for your back speaker add 10 to 15% of that

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- because you can't stretch speaker wire.

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- So having a few feet left over is a good thing.

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- Let's talk about the thickness of your wire,

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- the gauge and for most average home theater systems

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- ,

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- 16 gauge speaker wire will be just fine.

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- However,

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- if you have significantly more power or if you're

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- gonna be running speaker wire a lot longer,

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- say 75 to 100 ft,

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- you should get thicker wire,

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- probably 14 gauge will be adequate most cases.

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- Uh And as far as hiding all that wire,

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- there's a couple ways to do that.

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- If you are going to run it under your carpet,

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- that's a nice way to do it.

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- We even sell flat speaker wires.

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- Or maybe you want to put the wire in the wall.

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- Of course,

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- you can get in wall rated wire so that you're not

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- creating any sort of a fire hazard or anything like

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- that.

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- Plenty of ways to get your,

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- your wires run from the front to the back and well

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- hidden.