Bundling wires – Straight or braided?

[Kolia]

Which is the lesser evil in routing speaker cable?

Parallel to each other, clipping them at regular interval or braiding them? How about video component cable?

 

[Tyreman]

Well for speaker wire avoid bundling it up(wrapping the excess in any form of tight bundles)
what you don't use and let it lie out to the speaker if it loops very large under the couch or what have you don't worry about that.
I wouldn't wrap(braid)speaker wires together but thats just me
avoid close proximity to sources of potential electrical interference ie say a baseboard heater.

 

[jcPanny]

Speaker wire routing

Any option is fine, it is mostly a matter of asthetics.
To get crosstalk (from one signal to the next) you need high frequencies and/or a significant amount of current. Both of these are minimal in speaker wire. Video his much higher frequency, but the cables are shielded.

Try to minimize or avoid long runs parallel to power wires, perticularly for in-wall cable installation.

 

[Ampdog]

Good advice so far, Kolia. I am just not sure whether you mean the 2 wires of one channel (loudspeaker), or several channels. In the latter case I would not "intertwine" them, but the effect will still normally be negligible, as jcPanny explained (current, er, not always that low, but the impedance is low enough to make induction negligible - I presume you are not talking of many tens of meters).

My small concern of too long lengths too close (I mean of different channels) is that in some amplifiers with negative feedback from the loudspeaker terminals there were "ingress" of some artifacts via this way into the early stages. But that is the exception.

 

[Kolia]

So basically, only digital signal could be susceptible but a good cable would prevent interferences?

My receiver is ~10ft from the tv. So I’m running cables (speakers and video) up to 16ft to the front and ~30ft to the rears.

The power cable is somewhat close for only 1ft.

Thanks guys