Post by dgI have often thought (but never done it) that a guy could remove his
baseboard and if thick enough, use a router to make a channel in the
backside of the baseboard. Wire could be run in there. I often use surface
mount raceway, its cool because most people don't even notice it. I might
think "oh that looks like shit" but others don't even see it. Years later
if I see my work I did, I don't even see it much either.
Yes, it's common to pull a baseboard and dig a channel for the wire. Most
of the time it's in the drywall but it could just as well be in the
baseboard. One could even replace the baseboard with something slightly
thicker (or boxed) to handle some fairly thick gauge wire.
Also consider a combination of surface conduit and in-wall wiring. Run the
wire along the wall horizontally through surface conduit until you reach a
'good place' to punch into the wall for a vertical rise inside the stud
wall. Most residential rooms will have joists of some fashion in the
ceilings (or floors) and that can be used to run the wire. When the joists
run left/right then pull the wire across the wall until it reaches the
left/right space. With front/back joists it's a matter of running to each
left/right line along the wall to the right joists.
Note that it's often useful to rig up a temporary stand for speaker
positioning. Better to listen to the room with the speakers moved around to
different places BEFORE punching holes... There are 'technically correct'
postions, angles and placements of speakers but no two rooms, ears and
equipment are alike. Granted, for in-wall (or ceiling) units this doesn't
work as well but there's no harm in trying.
-Bill Kearney