Mar
17
Cable Organization: Label and Sort
Filed Under Equipment Cables
I can tell you one of the fastest ways to waste a lot of time (yeah I know no one would actually want to do that, but just in case) and that’s to not label and or organize the cables in your home theater system. Sooner or later for trouble shooting or re-arranging purposes you’re going to need to identify that left-rear surround or front-right speaker lead from the rest of the cables in your system. You know, the cables behid your system that resemble some abstract painting of a bowl of spaghetti.
Whether it’s with a sharpie on masking tape or nice n’ neat labels printed from a Brother label maker or freaking hieroglyphics* get something on those cables to identify them. Go all the way through the speakers, LF= left front, RF= right front, SUB= subwoofer etc. etc. Also try and get all of your audio and video source cables labeled as well, this makes fast work of system maintenance and hardware additions.
Another habit I try to keep is sorting cables by type when installing the system or doing any maintenance after the fact. If you haven’t peeked behind your system in months (or years in many cases) the gaggle of cables may look like an incomprehensible rats-nest, grouped by type however they can be sorted in half the time. *note: should you opt for hieroglyphics, the symbol for center channel speaker is one legged crane, moon in sky, jumping fish, one legged crane.
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