I need to run wires to the rear of my living room and I want to put a wallplate back there with two rear speaker connections and a subwoofer connection. The subwoofer will be using the standard RCA/coax connection. Any idea where I can get this?

 

http://www.nilesaudio.com/product_se....php?catcdID=8

 

Lowes, HD stock them also.

 

In our last place I got them from there. Nice and easy b/c I bought an extra one which I ended up needing to return... so didn't need to mail anything back... just drive back and return it

 

I had to goto HD for something else and I picked up everything that I needed for the wallplates.

 

Similar question. I burried some boxes containing speaker wire in a new wall a couple months back (wasn't ready/sure if i was going to put speakers there)...

Well, I lost the drawing with measurements on where I put them... what's an easy way to find the shit? Stud sensor doesn't work.

 

You know the approximate location, right?

You can get a good educated guess of the stud location, then use hammer to tap a long finished nail therough the drywall. You will know when you hit a stud.

 

Oh I know where the studs are, problem is I forgot which studs I put the boxes on and how high they were

Yeah, i was going to go the pilot hole route... just figured I'd see if ya'll had any better ideas

 

You are SOL, copper is not magnetic.

 

How did you run the wire? Can you find it from the attic and get a general idea which studs they are between?

You said a stud finder didn't work - are they plastic boxes? If they are metal, the studfinder should help you find them - mark out your studs, then move it all over the place in between them till it picks something else up.

Last option is to x-ray the walls.

 

wire is from basement, but some of them aren't straight runs up the wall. and yes, plastic boxes.

SOL indeed.

 

Tie 120v into it and use an electrical detector (<$10 at HD) to find it...

Be careful with this...

 

^-- hmm. good idea. tad scary... but good idea.

Any risks (besides electrocution )? Fire and such I mean?

 

Shouldn't be but I guess you really don't know what the ends are touching and such. I was just trying to think of something cheap you could do. The best/safest way would be to use a tone probe, but you need to make a loop circuit for that to work. I'm not sure if the 120v needs to make one or not for the lil detector thing to detect it.

You're pretty SOL though...