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kfp673
Explorer II
Oct 24, 2013

Audio / Video Pet Peeve

Just wanted to vent for a minute. Maybe I am picky having worked in the Audio/Video field for the last 15 years but it drives me nuts at the complete lack of wire management on ever toy hauler and RV 5er/TT I have ever seen. We saw the new Momentum by grad design for example at a show which is beautiful TH and even that had wires all over the place. I don't understand why it is so hard for these companies to fish wires to the spot where the TV/entertainment system will actually live. There are some TH's that have TV's over the main door and the cable jack will be on the bottom of the shelf that holds the TV. It will then have a piece of coax looping back up to the TV. Why not Just have the jack behind the TV where it would be hidden? Instead you have this ugly wall plate and a loop of coax going back up to where it came from??? Why have AV jacks mounted in the ceiling in a garage of a TH instead of fishing 6 more inches down the wall to be behind the TV? It really looks cheap and like they really don't care. I know I am being picky but I just can't believe how little effort they put into a clean AV install in just about every RV I have seen. OK, off my soap box :-)
  • I'm sure there's some point to that photo, but darned if I know what. It's not from a toyhauler?

    I had to pull the front of my entertainment center off to do some additions and the wiring back there was just an astounding mess. Three of the wires were so short that I couldn't open the covering more than an inch. Just ridiculous.

    I also had to put one of my speakers back in the ceiling. They are pretty heavy little dudes and they were just secured, if you can call it that, in the 1/2" ceiling board by some wood screws, no anchors, nothing to really hold them in place. I need to put expanding anchors in the rest of the speakers next spring.
  • They put mine behind the Tv and you are right it looks good where you can't see it.