Hide speaker cables

[DanielT]

How have you done? Tips and advice are gratefully received.

 

[amirm]

When I take pictures of the system to show to people, I use photoshop to delete them. That's all I have done to hide them.

 

[Doodski]

How have you done? Tips and advice are gratefully received.

I have used flat speaker cable to run under carpets.

 

[DanielT]

When I take pictures of the system to show to people, I use photoshop to delete them. That's all I have done to hide them.

Hmm maybe hide them behind the floor molding (is it called that in English? See picture).

 

[DanielT]

I have used flat speaker cable to run under carpets.

Good idea!

 

[DanielT]

Another way is to dress cheap cables in some type of "high end" sock and let them be exposed.

I think it's silly but that possibility does exist.

 

[Doodski]

Another way is to dress cheap cables in some type of "high end" sock and let them be exposed.

I think it's silly but that possibility does exist.

Yes, in a braided shell of bright yellow or a deep red gloss and have more multicolored terminations and heat shrink tubing or custom terminations with the name on them.

 

[antcollinet]

I've used spiral wrap. Doesn't hide it, but makes a bundle of cables look much neater:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Line-CTW.../B00FYRW53Y/ref=psdc_1938264031_t2_B003CL6MVA

 

[DanielT]

Spiral wrap.Why not.

I surfed the net. Found this solution: mountable cable tunnel. Well, that may be a solution.

 

[DanielT]

Yes, in a braided shell of bright yellow or a deep red gloss and have more multicolored terminations and heat shrink tubing or custom terminations with the name on them.

 

[Doodski]

I worked for awhile doing the industrial manufacturing assembly of heavy equipment like rotary and coil tube drilling rigs, fracking pumpers, chem trailers for fracking and wheeled and tracked vehicles and part of that was making cables and main wiring harnesses large and small. Some of the vehicles where controlled with joysticks. The big cables where about 2" in diameter and would entail all sorts of stuff on and around the cables like colorful heat shrink tubing, nice nylon braided protective shells and lotsaa gold terminations. Some pretty expensive cables when completed and if one cost $5K to $12K then so be it and nobody flinched. They just wanted the best, most durable and reliable stuff so the drillers and operator crew could concentrate on drilling or driving and whatever was occurring in the peripheral. Now I see audio cables and they are pretty lightweight.

 

[David Harper]

Hmm maybe hide them behind the floor molding (is it called that in English? See picture).

good idea but probably too much work. I have hardwood floors so no convenient way to hide wires. I could go down in the crawlspace (yikes!)
and string them down there but I don't like it down there.

 

[Markinspain]

Under the floor

 

[DanielT]

Smart.

There are those who have gone all the way and hidden away all equipment. Play the game find five speakers, see picture.

 

[charleski]

Smart.

There are those who have gone all the way and hidden away all equipment. Play the game find five speakers, see picture.

I bet those lanterns either side of the fireplace are some sort of redressed fancy MBL speakers .

 

[JayGilb]

Smart.

There are those who have gone all the way and hidden away all equipment. Play the game find five speakers, see picture.

Clean install. I found some ceiling speakers and a tv behind the picture frame. Who installed it, Waldo's Audio Store ?

 

[DanielT]

I know nothing about that room. I just did a googling on "hide hifi" and this page appeared.

https://www.audioholics.com/editorials/hidden-home-theater-hiding-surround-sound

 

[jkasch]

Through the floor, right where it meets the baseboard. Requires basement underneath.

 

[Martin]

I use Electriduct Corner Ducts:
https://www.electriduct.com/Corner-Duct-Cable-Raceway.html

Martin

 

[Berwhale]

In my lounge and family rooms, I fitted Van Damme install cable behind the wooden skirting i'd taken off to fit a wooden floor over concrete one. For my rears in the lounge, I fed the Van Damme cable between the drywall and blockwork using a fibreglass cable pulling kit into a box directly behind the speakers.