grunviz
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I have moved my main listening room from my lounge to my snug (think unused dining room). And, I need some help trying to hide some speaker cable that runs across the hearth. I would ideally like not to buy more.
A bit of history first - I spent ages, and I mean ages, trying to get my speakers in a good position in my lounge. See here for my string based madness
And, after I finished with positioning the speakers I even measured acoustically and had some filters created to help cancel out the room. But, after all that, I have admitted defeat as it still did not sound right, so I have now ditched that room, my lounge, as a listening environment! The lounge will stay as a room to watch TV but not serious listening. In fact, I even considereded a *winces* sound bar!! Anyway, temporary madness aside, I have purchased some Monitor Audio Bronze speakers to operate as my left and right speakers in the lounge, so I will still have a 5.1 setup running off a Denon x3300w. All the rest of my kit, I have moved kit to the snug.
So, in the snug, see picture, I have moved my PMC Twenty5 22's speakers, Musical Fidelity M6si, Topping D90 balanced DAC and Allo USBridge Signature and two acoustic panels. I spent yesterday installing a new wired connection feeding the kit from my Roon core on an Intel NUC with music stored on My Synology DS918+ NAS (with Roon and Qobuz) which are both stored in an upstairs cupboard.
I spent yesterday evening listening and it sounds soooo much better already, you can sit basically opposite the fireplace creating a nice triangle, although I still need to position my speakers properly - you can see the magazines they are on currently. But, I also sat there staring at the speaker wire trailing across the slate hearth from my right speaker to my amp. I have about 3.5m of Chord Shawline X, so I have a load of wire left over for my left speaker and not enough for my right. I can't get it to run around the hearth unfortunately.
So, how can I avoid buying a load more cable? Is there a way to hide the cable running across the hearth that is heat proof? I was wondering about a section of slate which has a grove removed and placing that over the wire?? I don't really want just a piece of plastic to go over it as it won't be heat proof and it will look a bit rubbish, probably.
So, any ideas?
A bit of history first - I spent ages, and I mean ages, trying to get my speakers in a good position in my lounge. See here for my string based madness
Speaker positioning - or something else?
I have a problem whereby it feels like, with certain music, that my left speaker has more prominence than my right speaker leading to an issue with stereo imagining. A word on my kit first, I have some PMC Twenty5 22s speakers, fed by a Musical Fidelity M6si amplifier from a Topping D90 DAC and...
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And, after I finished with positioning the speakers I even measured acoustically and had some filters created to help cancel out the room. But, after all that, I have admitted defeat as it still did not sound right, so I have now ditched that room, my lounge, as a listening environment! The lounge will stay as a room to watch TV but not serious listening. In fact, I even considereded a *winces* sound bar!! Anyway, temporary madness aside, I have purchased some Monitor Audio Bronze speakers to operate as my left and right speakers in the lounge, so I will still have a 5.1 setup running off a Denon x3300w. All the rest of my kit, I have moved kit to the snug.
So, in the snug, see picture, I have moved my PMC Twenty5 22's speakers, Musical Fidelity M6si, Topping D90 balanced DAC and Allo USBridge Signature and two acoustic panels. I spent yesterday installing a new wired connection feeding the kit from my Roon core on an Intel NUC with music stored on My Synology DS918+ NAS (with Roon and Qobuz) which are both stored in an upstairs cupboard.
I spent yesterday evening listening and it sounds soooo much better already, you can sit basically opposite the fireplace creating a nice triangle, although I still need to position my speakers properly - you can see the magazines they are on currently. But, I also sat there staring at the speaker wire trailing across the slate hearth from my right speaker to my amp. I have about 3.5m of Chord Shawline X, so I have a load of wire left over for my left speaker and not enough for my right. I can't get it to run around the hearth unfortunately.
So, how can I avoid buying a load more cable? Is there a way to hide the cable running across the hearth that is heat proof? I was wondering about a section of slate which has a grove removed and placing that over the wire?? I don't really want just a piece of plastic to go over it as it won't be heat proof and it will look a bit rubbish, probably.
So, any ideas?