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For my set up, I ended up making a box and using a different decorative plate color which worked out great for my set up. I ended up using a thinner wire for the attachment. I am thinking of buying more for my other speakers. this did what I expected. It did reduce the maximum volume a little, which I had expected, and the wiring was tough with 14 guage.
For a THIRD of what we were going to spend we are now set with a great home system. Stay out of Best Buy. These systems are for background music and they do wonderfully. We aren't going to blast the speakers for hours and days anyway. This products have been GREAT for our home sound system. We had our house prewired when we built it and went to Best Buy to get "the stuff we needed" Thankfully we went home to measure again and decided to check Amazon.
Pay attention, the unit is very deep, almost twice the regular box so measure first before buying the control. Works fine.I bit difficult to put in the proper space.
You can get boxes with the back of them cut-out already (plastic or my favorite is a thin metal). Look for 'low voltage wiring box' and save yourself effort of hacking a high voltage box to pieces.And I haven't seen any volume issues. I have another volume control from radio shack and this one is much better. This enables you to screw the unit to the thin ring but allows the unit all the depth it needs due to having not back to the box at all. this thing allows all the volume that my speakers can possibly handle (running 2 pairs of Axiom M3s on A/B). The radio shack one I installed a couple years ago, and while it performs just fine, there aren't as many volume click positions and the places to screw down the wire into the unit were TERRIBLE. This one installed very quickly, is made very solidly (you have to push pretty hard to get it into a standard box - my only real 'complaint').Also, keep in mind this is low voltage wiring so you don't need to use a 'real' box to put in your wall.
The lack of directions was frustrating at first, but it quickly became apparent that the bracket is necessary since the faceplate is larger than a standard box.They work well, and with the several color choices Phoenix has provided, (white, ivory or bone) they easily fix into most decors. I bought some of these volume controls for several in-ceiling speakers that are being installed in a home under construction.Due to the size of the controller, and the wires going to and from it, I found it best to use a deep box (or a box with no back).I had no real problem installing these.
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