How To Install Flat Speaker Cable

Before I get much further, I want to connect the flat wire to the white speaker wires and close up the wall plate.

Here I’ve cut the white wires and connected them to the flat wire with the special connector blocks that come with the spool. There are better pictures and explanations of how you expose the 4 strands of wire and connect them to the terminal block a bit later. After this, I just pushed the wires back into the wall cavity. I’ve also added a wall plate here for the main right speaker, but if there wasn’t a speaker here, I’d just use a blank wall plate.

(After the initial install, I replaced the white and copper-colored wire with proper in-wall rated wire. You can see the in-wall rated yellow wire in the photo below.)

Here is the completed photo of the starting end. I took the photo with the camera at normal eye level— you can see the copper colored wire going to my main right speaker, and you get a good sense of how noticeable the flat wire is (i.e., not that noticeable). Looks pretty good.