Tall artifical plants behind the speakers to soften the angles then 3-4 small fernlike floorstanders around 12 inches in height all over the floor to hide the speaker cables. Also, drilling holes in your floor to run cables is neat if you can manage it and have a basement or garage under your listening room, but I guess you could run inside studs, floor joists as well depending. I've also used painted wood 1x5 soffits that run along the back and side wall for pc/s interconnect and speaker cable as well as running PVD pipe in ceilings and walls so you can change cables when you want. It's easy to do if you have skills, or if you're like me, hire a carpenter.
WAF Tricks to Display Exotic Audio
Here is a slight twist on the usual "how do we hide the wires" WAF question.
I have a few vintagey components hanging around where I love the look of them, particularly on top of real furniture -- not audio racks.
For example, I have long and narrow, antique Chinese altar table which is very sturdy and looks great with my components on top of it.
Unfortunately, however, it only looks great until I try to plug them in and turn them on, when they become a typical mess with cables and plugs.
Now I would not say I am good at this kind of thing, but I have tried outlet strips mounted to the back, plastic conduits for the cables etc, and I just can't ever seem to get things sufficiently neat and tidy.
Could any WAF experts contribute their best tricks for tidying and hiding cables, power cords and power strips etc especially when you don't have the advantage of a dedicated audio furniture?
Is there a system for this? Special cable ties? False wall or furniture back tricks? Mirrors?
If the cables could somehow disappear, I would really love to see my Yanaha T-2 tuner, for example, glowing softly at night.
Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
I have a few vintagey components hanging around where I love the look of them, particularly on top of real furniture -- not audio racks.
For example, I have long and narrow, antique Chinese altar table which is very sturdy and looks great with my components on top of it.
Unfortunately, however, it only looks great until I try to plug them in and turn them on, when they become a typical mess with cables and plugs.
Now I would not say I am good at this kind of thing, but I have tried outlet strips mounted to the back, plastic conduits for the cables etc, and I just can't ever seem to get things sufficiently neat and tidy.
Could any WAF experts contribute their best tricks for tidying and hiding cables, power cords and power strips etc especially when you don't have the advantage of a dedicated audio furniture?
Is there a system for this? Special cable ties? False wall or furniture back tricks? Mirrors?
If the cables could somehow disappear, I would really love to see my Yanaha T-2 tuner, for example, glowing softly at night.
Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
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