Ball stops for underfloor speaker cables


Hi. I'm running speaker cable through an insulated crawlspace, with enough slack so that the speakers can be positioned for listening or tucked away to keep the room tidy. Naturally, I terminate the cable at the speakers rather than at a wallplate because fewer connections are better, I'm told.

One of these days, because of children or guests, the cables are almost certain to get damaged where they enter or exit the floorboards, and I'll be out both expense and hassle fo re-run them.

I think a "ball stop" (similar to what you might find on the end of a retractable vacuum/sweeper cord, or on a retractable pneumatic line in a commercial garage) will ameliorate this risk. Is anyone using them? If so, have you identified a less-unsightly version or manufacture?

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Google "floor grommet", there are a lot of different styles...

 

 

 

DeKay

I just poke the cable through the floor at the speaker with a homemade box over it so the cleaning lady don't snack it with the vacuum.

If you're moving the speakers around, it's on you to figure it out 

A 12" traffic cone. Orange. Set it over where the cable is coming out of the floor. If your using spades tape the cable to the floor. If you’re using bananas at least put a piece of shrink wrap over the connections and shrink it. THEN tape the cable to the floor up to the cone. Even a 6" cone BUT it’s soft and if the Vacuum hits it it won’t gobble the cable in the roller.

I have floor trap power outlets in the attic. It was for the HO trains. When you close the box lid it went around the power cable and over the top of the mail plug. You couldn’t jerk it out of the floor. I always put a table leg by the outlets just for slip, trip, and fall, hazards and a place to run the cable and hide it too boot.

Regards

Regards

They are coming through the floor. I'll chat with the wife about some electric fence if she shoots down the bear trap proposal.

And I suppose I'm using suspenders. The stapled-up velcro strap variety. 

where they enter or exit the floorboards

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So they are coming through the floor or the wall, just to clear my brain?

If it's through the floor put up a fold over tube orange cone and an electric fence. Feed the wire through the cone and then to you speaker. Silicone the cone to the floor. The electric fence is for the real hard headed kids. Let um fry for a bit. little turds. :-)

Merry Christmas.