lmm
May 15th, 2005, 1:17 PM
Last year, I hired someone to run cables under the house for my setup. He installed two wall plates (http://gallery.avsforum.com/showphoto.php?photo=14420&size=big&sort=1&cat=500) (see linked photo) with connectors running across for ethernet, digital cable, phone but also audio lines across the room -- two (12 AWG) speaker cables for the surrounds, and one cable for the subwoofer.
The subwoofer cable is a coax, and the wall plate connectors for "sub" are screw-on F connectors. With my current subwoofer, I have a short F-connector-terminated coax cable from the patch panel to the subwoofer, with a female-F/male-RCA adapter to allow it to connect to the subwoofer.
I'm upgrading to a Hsu STF-3, and, to place the subwoofer in the recommended spot, I needed a longer cable, so I bought a bluejeanscable subwoofer cable (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/single/subwoofer.htm), which comes with RCA connectors on the end.
I'm thinking that I either need to:
1. return the new subwoofer cable and get one terminated with F-connectors (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/rf/index.htm), even if not designed for this application, or else
2. Get a male-F/female-RCA adapter and use it at the wall socket
3. Get the guy to come back and re-run different cable/connectors under the house.
There's about 4 feet of cable from the receiver to the one wall plate, about 20 feet of cable under the house to the back wall plate. There will be a 20 foot cable from the back wall plate to the subwoofer.
Bluejeanscable says "In some ways, the subwoofer cable interconnect is the least demanding application in home theater" (except for hum rejection), so I suppose, as long as I don't get hum, I shouldn't worry about the cable connection?
Opinions?
The subwoofer cable is a coax, and the wall plate connectors for "sub" are screw-on F connectors. With my current subwoofer, I have a short F-connector-terminated coax cable from the patch panel to the subwoofer, with a female-F/male-RCA adapter to allow it to connect to the subwoofer.
I'm upgrading to a Hsu STF-3, and, to place the subwoofer in the recommended spot, I needed a longer cable, so I bought a bluejeanscable subwoofer cable (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/single/subwoofer.htm), which comes with RCA connectors on the end.
I'm thinking that I either need to:
1. return the new subwoofer cable and get one terminated with F-connectors (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/rf/index.htm), even if not designed for this application, or else
2. Get a male-F/female-RCA adapter and use it at the wall socket
3. Get the guy to come back and re-run different cable/connectors under the house.
There's about 4 feet of cable from the receiver to the one wall plate, about 20 feet of cable under the house to the back wall plate. There will be a 20 foot cable from the back wall plate to the subwoofer.
Bluejeanscable says "In some ways, the subwoofer cable interconnect is the least demanding application in home theater" (except for hum rejection), so I suppose, as long as I don't get hum, I shouldn't worry about the cable connection?
Opinions?