I agree about the angle grinder.. you will have to move everything out of the room and you'll be tasting dust for weeks!
Plaster should be easy to cut a suitable chanel into using simple hand tools over the sort of short distances you're talking about. Much less mess! All depends on how thick your speaker cable is though? How about some QED silver micro..
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