whats the best way to hide the speaker wire going from the receiver to the rear speakers? I am a college student and will likely have a few roudy friends over so i would prefere to not have the wire in open areas (i wouldnt be happy seeing a speaker fly b/c someone tripped on the wire). I assume most of you guide the wire under your carpet or run the wire around the room on the edges? What do you recommend
not sure about that im sure the stoners below me will find a way to hollow the wire out, fill it, and smoke it. how hard is it to guide speaker wire under carpet-if i have to cut holes anywhere my landlord could think differently.
db; another option you might consider is external conduit. Not the metal stuff they use in schools, etc., but the inexpensive plastic kind that is applied with foam tape. You apply it at the bottom of the trim/baseboard. The wire just slides into it. It offers a bit of protection for the wire and keeps it out of the way.
These come in a beige color, 8 foot lengths, with foam tape on the back. You can get connectors to connect the pieces, go around or inside corners, and can even terminate the run into an electrical box where you can install the wire to a wall plate with binding posts.
The advantage here is that since this is an apartment in college, this material is temporary and can be removed relatively easily without damage. You can get this stuff at any big box hardware store (Menard's, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.)
I guess this depends in the type of carpet you have. If it has any bit of knap you can grab onto, get a pliers and go to on of the edges. Grab the knap and pull up. It should release from the tack strip around the outside. This will often reveal a space below the baseboard that wire can be slid into. Run the wire there and then push the carpet back onto the tack strip.
