2006-12-12 18:34:44 · 13 answers · asked by rodney g 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
the stripe on speaker wire is the NEGATIVE..
(so you have two wires running together) one with stripe one without, the one without connects to red, and the one with stripe connects to black!
P.S. It really doesn't matter, you could use the one with stripe for positive, as long as YOU know that it is so... (it's only marked with a stripe so that you can connect negative to negative and positive to positive without guessing which is which)
2006-12-12 18:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by RHINOTECHIE 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-03 00:48:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 19:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically it has no real meaning. It's so you can wire your speakers in phase with each other. In other words if you would wire the striped wire to the red on your speaker connection you would wire the striped wire to the red on your receiver connection also. You would do it the same way for both right and left speakers or all five speakers if you have surround sound.
2006-12-14 09:12:13 · answer #4 · answered by coco2591 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Buy good quality 16 or 14 gauge copper speaker wire and you'll be fine. You do want polarized wire which simply means that one side will have a designation (like a white stripe) to hook up the positive and negative correctly. It is important to get the polarity right. Home Depot sells both 14 and 16 guage. The 16 is fine for runs up to 50'. If your runs are longer, go with the 14 guage. The metal prongs are fine if you connect them properly and securely to the wire but I'd skip them. It's easy enough to hook up the wire without them and it elliminates a potential loose connection at that point.
2016-03-27 02:02:18 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stripe diferentaties which wire is positive/ negative. In speaker cables it does not matter which one you assign to negative. However, generally folk say the striped one is negative/ black/ or the ground wire.
Basically just make sure you are connecting each end equally. So if striped is negative, then make sure both ends are going into your negative or black terminal on the speaker/ receiver.
Best of luck in your system!
2006-12-12 23:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by Chris W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-19 05:26:07 · answer #7 · answered by Vaughn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its really there to help you to get your positive and negative the same on your receiver and your speakers you can either choose to use the stripe as positive or negative just make sure you have them the same on either end. in a few words its there so you don't have to trace all your wires to find out witch one is positive or negative
2006-12-12 18:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by rashest_hippo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people use it for the ground side, but it's just there so you can differentiate the two sides, so you can get the same side on both the speaker, and the output. I always say red is right, and put the stripe on black. speakers are polar. it will be out of phase if you cross the wires, and not sound or work as well.
2006-12-12 18:38:35 · answer #9 · answered by Big hands Big feet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
But no one answered the real question: Why are two wires needed? What is the meaning of "positive" and "negative"? I've been wondering that. Does the current go to the speaker on positive and come back on negative, to make a full circuit?
2006-12-16 02:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by MJ Fisher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋