What type of wire is this? in pre-wired Apartment

foxatron

Hi Folks,

I live in an apartment which has these wires in 3 corners of the living room. I never took much notice of them but had an engineer installing broadband the other day and he thought they were a surround sound shared wiring system.

Anyone any idea what the cables might be for? is it sound or another type of system?

Thanks

maxfresh

yes looks like speaker cable alright ,probably ran back to one location.

The Muppet

Speaker cable from the socket pictured up to the corners of the room I'd say

foxatron

Cool. Thanks for the replies. Is it much of a job (diy) to get a speaker system wired up?

dingding

The left multicore cable looks like it might be a phone / cat5 cable.

The cable with the two wires looks like a speaker cable.

Might be worth asking a neighbour if they have the cables and used them for anything.

The box with the 2 cables in the photo, is this likely to be where a television might be located, do you have cabling for aerials / sky dishes near any of these points you have photographed.

foxatron

dingding wrote: »

The left multicore cable looks like it might be a phone / cat5 cable.

The cable with the two wires looks like a speaker cable.

Might be worth asking a neighbour if they have the cables and used them for anything.

The box with the 2 cables in the photo, is this likely to be where a television might be located, do you have cabling for aerials / sky dishes near any of these points you have photographed.

Yeah its where I have the tv at the moment and the natural location for it. The complex was originally wired by Smart telecom and they were actually trialling a tv service when they wired the building AFAIK.