Meathead
05-14-2007, 02:31 PM
I had my basement finished a couple months ago & I am just now getting to setting my stereo up. I currently have the Polk RM6800 surround sound setup (pictured here)
http://www.polkaudio.com/images/home/medium/titanium/rm6800.jpg
In anticipation of upgrading to a 7.1 receiver in the future, I had my contractor run wires from the wall behind the receiver to each of the speaker locations and a single RCA cable from the receiver to the sub location. Then, so I could use what I have in the meantime, I told him to wire me up for the RM6800. This basically meant running two additional lines from the receiver to the sub (located in the back of the room) & two more lines from the sub to the two front speakers. I explicitly told him this and even drew up wiring diagrams.
Last night as I was beginning to wire up the speakers, I realized that my contractor only ran one speaker wire from the receiver to the sub. The RCA cable (from the receiver to the sub) is there and the speaker wire from the sub to the fronts are there, but only one speaker wire from the receiver to the sub. Because all of the wiring was done when the basement was framed in & not sheetrocked, the wires have been stapled to the studs & tucked in areas that are no longer accessible. This means that there is no way for me to fish a new wire from the receiver to the sub.
Using the preferred and alternate wiring methods in the Polk instructions, I am screwed as I need two lines from the receiver to the sub. but I am reading around that I can just run all the speakers directly off my Onkyo TX-DS747 5.1 receiver and use only the single RCA cable going from the receiver's sub output to connect the sub. Is this a viable option for the RM6800?
http://www.polkaudio.com/images/home/medium/titanium/rm6800.jpg
In anticipation of upgrading to a 7.1 receiver in the future, I had my contractor run wires from the wall behind the receiver to each of the speaker locations and a single RCA cable from the receiver to the sub location. Then, so I could use what I have in the meantime, I told him to wire me up for the RM6800. This basically meant running two additional lines from the receiver to the sub (located in the back of the room) & two more lines from the sub to the two front speakers. I explicitly told him this and even drew up wiring diagrams.
Last night as I was beginning to wire up the speakers, I realized that my contractor only ran one speaker wire from the receiver to the sub. The RCA cable (from the receiver to the sub) is there and the speaker wire from the sub to the fronts are there, but only one speaker wire from the receiver to the sub. Because all of the wiring was done when the basement was framed in & not sheetrocked, the wires have been stapled to the studs & tucked in areas that are no longer accessible. This means that there is no way for me to fish a new wire from the receiver to the sub.
Using the preferred and alternate wiring methods in the Polk instructions, I am screwed as I need two lines from the receiver to the sub. but I am reading around that I can just run all the speakers directly off my Onkyo TX-DS747 5.1 receiver and use only the single RCA cable going from the receiver's sub output to connect the sub. Is this a viable option for the RM6800?