My friend and I are new to Home theater runs. We ran 14 ga speaker wire in the walls for woofers and now the local audiophile store is suggesting that he will not get "True" surround sound unless he runs RG6 due to the impedence issues. He bought the following equipment, can you tell me if the guy is really overkilling it as we will need to likely cut holes in the ceiling to get this cable run.
Here's the list:
Yamaha RX-V2600 A/V Receiver
Yamaha CDC585 5 Disk CD Changer
Paradigm Studio 20 v.3 Bookshelves
Paradigm Studio CC-470 v.3 Center Channel Paradigm UltraCube 10 Subwoofer (on order) Definitive In-wall Two-Way Bipolar Rears (on order)
Here is what the audio guy said:
I have a single speaker wire ran from the entertainment center to the subwoofer box. The subwoofer requires RG6 for an RCA connection to utilize the "true" surround sound. A subwoofer could operate with normal Right and Left speaker wires however the low frequency signal is susceptible to interference and the "true" surround sound feature is lost.
Thanks for your advice in advance.
