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Video and audio cables... Don't mix?


Do you think I’ll wind up with trouble if I run both audio (speaker cables) & video (HDMI & RCA/S), in the same square conduit (channel)?

The speaker cables are Canare 4S11.

All the wires will be together for about 10 – 11 ft. then the video cables will split off to the PJ.

Or is it really necessary to just run two channels… which is my guess… but not my wish.

I ask only because I’ve heard talk that the Cannare cables geometry is not conducive to exuding or recovering interference, generally speaking.

Lastly, has anyone seen plastic or rubberish, flexible rectangular conduit or channel? I need to span a couple places where rigid conduit simply won’t do. The gap/span overall, is about 8 inches in total.

Thanks very much…
blindjim
carl109
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Others with more knowledge will answer this, but since HDMI is fully digital data transfer, it should be very obvious in the picture and sound if there's any interference from speaker or mains power cables.
I would assume such intereference would more likely affect analogue transfer (eg S-video, RGB etc)?
blindjim OP
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Well for good or ill... I'll put up two runs of smaller channel. One for the Audio and the other for video... and just try not to look up too often.

Thanks much all for all the imput here.
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dbphd
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You might try creating a hollow beam or molding arrangement so the conduits can be hidden by decor. Instead of trying to hide it, make it an attractive feature. Of course, I, myself, have snakes of wires running around my room, but advice is easy.

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blindjim OP
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Dbphd
Thanks. I've little choice in where and how to run this affair aside from location and size of the channeling.... ceiling or wall... It's ceiling for the PJ cables, and hopefully the wall for the rear speaker cables.

The decorative fix is just to paint each wire hider channel accordingly. Making conduit more invisible I believe is the way to go.
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