Blue jean cable s 12 gauge belden 5000 series speaker wire is a good.
Mount height speakers on the wall.
Even if the wire enters the wall at the mount and exits a few feet below make sure you use cables rated for in wall use.
Wali speaker wall mount brackets multiple adjustments for bookshelf surrounding sound speakers hold up to 7 7 lbs swm402 4 packs black 4 4 out of 5 stars 1 224 14 99 14.
Have the satellite fronts at the same level as the center channel right above the tv but i can only seperate the left and right speakers as far out as the outside edges of the screen but not past them.
So only as a last resort should you even think about putting any speaker on a bookshelf.
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For example i ve seen compact speakers with sloped downward pointing baffles that are designed to be wall mounted near the ceiling.