Too many wires?

Question

I've just set up my surround sound home theater and now have a TON of wires running out of the wall into my open shelf system with my components on it. Speaker wire, coax, power, video component, you get the idea. In short, it looks like crap. Suggestions to clean it up a bit?

Answer 1

If you go to an office supply store, electronics store (best buy offers this), or to a hardware store you can purchase a plastic coil that you put your wires inside of and then zip tie it shut. If you have an IKEA near you they have a sweet deal on 16ft of this for $5, and when I found it on a visit a few months ago with my wife, I bought 5 of them just to be safe.

Tell them you are looking for wire maintentance products.

Answer 2

Many of these are good suggestions.

I'm more of a high end audio guy rather than home theater (i do have home theater too but music is more important to me), one of my main speakers cost more than most peoples entire stereo. So i tend to gather the power cords on one side and the audio cables on the other, less chance of noise from power cords. Then speaker wires together and as far away from the power cords as possible.

Answer 3

Well if the stand is black get some black speaker carpet and put it behind it or go to and auto parts store and get some wire loom you can get it in tons of different colours, or if you walls are white get some white vinyl put it behind it so it looks just like the wall...actually white Bristol board would probably be better and cheaper, I think that you just need to get creative...

Answer 4

wire ties work wonders

Answer 5

i know what you mean.i have one also and i haven't come up with a solution yet.
it looks like a can of worms.