What do you use and how do you cut 24 gauge speaker wire?

Question

I need to know if you can use regualr scissors or do i use wire cutters

Answer 1

Wire cutters are more convenient and will do a better splicing
job, but if you only have scissors and don't want to invest in a
good wire splicing tool, here's how you would do it...

1) Cut your speaker cable to your desired length to be able
to reach your speaker and receiver/amplifier.

2) Separate the two wires (i.e. positive "+" and negative "-")
on each end about 6 inches from the end by cutting down the
middle of the jacket holding the two wires together (if they are
running in shotgun).

3) Then take each Teflon covered wire and run the scissor's
blades around the wire jacket covering (about 1-2 inches from
the end of the jacket) until you have cut down to the bare wire.
With 24 gauge wire, you must be very careful as not to cut the
strands of wire when doing this because this is a very thin wire.

4) Once you have cut down to the bare wire, take the scissors
and slide the jacket off the end of the wire. WARNING! BE SURE
TO DO THIS AWAY FROM YOU AS NOT TO CAUSE BODILY
INJURY TO YOURSELF.

5) Finally, twist the bare wire tightly until all of the little individual
wires are as one bigger wire for best results in connecting to
your speakers and your receiver or amplifier. ALWAYS KEEP
THE POSITIVE "+" AND NEGATIVE "-" WIRES SEPARATE.
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Answer 2

LISTEN, First, 24 guage is way too small, second, ZIP CORD is for lamps NOT speakers. Do yourself a huge favor and go and buy MONSTER, or an equivalent brand of high quality speaker wire. The lower the guage the better, I'd say at least 18guage, but I personally prefer 14 guage. YES you need wire cutters. As a rule of thumb you will lose about 15-25% of your overall sound quality with crappy wiring, so just get the good stuff!!

Answer 3

24 gauge is much too thin. Use 18 gauge or even 16 gauge "zip cord" from a hardware store.

Scissors won't be helpful. You'll be able to cut the wire with scissors, but you won't be able to strip off the insulation - you'll just keep cutting through the whole thing instead. Radio Shack and electric supply stores can sell you a "wire stripper" that can cut most of the way through while leaving the wire core intact, then pull off the insulation.

Answer 4

24 guage is too small. use 16 guage or larger (especially if the speaker carries low frequencies). Use any kind of cable, zip cord is fine, don't fall for the marketing malarkey of "high end" cables. The only advantage of using speaker cable instead of lamp cord is that the speaker cable is marked so you can tell one side from the other. This is important in hooking up the terminals correctly. But you can get speaker cable that is not much more expensive than lamp cord at Home Depot or other major hardware store. You don't need a "brand name".

Answer 5

Use wire cutters you can damage the scissors

Answer 6

Disconnect the wires out of your speaker and out of your source (amps, receiver, or in spite of). On one end connect the - and + wires then verify continuity on the different end. in case you assert that your crimp connections are ok then it might desire to have continuity and not something incorrect with the cables. If it would not artwork i think you will possibly desire to double verify the + and - crimped cord connection coz in line with risk the wires have been go related (which means + to - or vice versa).

Answer 7

Use your teeth.