Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.

“Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.” is a supplemental task performed by Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#5 most important). About 85% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Install commercial or production equipment. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders. · importance 4.4
• Compute cost estimates for labor and materials. · importance 4.1
• Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes. · importance 4.0
• Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs. · importance 4.0
• Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment. · importance 4.0
• Make service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or return units to shops for major repairs. · importance 4.0
• Read and interpret electronic circuit diagrams, function block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals. · importance 3.9
• Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings. · importance 3.8
• Keep records of work orders and test and maintenance reports. · importance 3.7
• Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-13747,
  title  = {Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-13747}
}