I am trying to build a low budget home theature. I bought a cheap receiver that came with speakers that have wires hardwired to the speakers which of course are not long enough. I have miles of telephone cable left over from an old tivo. I want to cut the telephone cable up, merge it with the too short speaker cable using a few twists and electrical tape, and run it to my cheap receiver. Will this kill my already flat sound quality?
2007-10-10 04:42:56 · 11 answers · asked by Question Man 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
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2007-10-10 04:49:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Phone To Speaker Cable
2016-10-31 12:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not do it. I connected 6 stands of telephone wire for each conductor at a total of around 50 feet and the bass would not hit as hard compared to a short speaker wire.
2014-06-25 06:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Brian Chin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Telephone cable wire gauge is much smaller (thinner) than speaker wire. In order to use the telephone cable you will have to triple or quadruple the wires used in order to have the proper sized wire for the speakers. Either that or can use lamp cord wires.
Make sure you match the wire polarities. You would not want your speakers to be out of phase. That would cause the flat sound to be even worse!
2007-10-10 09:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by gkk_72 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Each Telephone cable has 4 smaller wires inside. If you have miles of the stuff... You could connect all 4 wires together and use for each +/- speaker terminal. Mimicking a higher gauge wire... (in theory)
It will work and you won't notice any issues.
2007-10-10 07:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by Neo 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Myself, I'd only use what I've got and be happy, until you get something else.... Can you do it? Sure...
Is it going to kill your already flat sound? I'd bet yes it will.
The longer the speaker wire run, the more power it needs from the receiver to work properly, so if you lengthen the run, it's going to cause more harm than good.
2007-10-10 14:07:01 · answer #6 · answered by damond h 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it will send the signal... but telephone wire is twisted pair... the wire is twisted to prevent induction from any RF signals or electronic devices nearby.... using speaker wire, which is not twisted pair acts as an antenna and will pick up all kind of background inductive problems on the line, as well as degrade the quality of any DSL, modem, or fax machine transmissions...
2016-05-20 23:24:19 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can but I worry about overheating.
Since the system is not stellar I would go look at lamp cord in the hardware store first before using telephone cable. You run less risk of overheating that way.
2007-10-10 05:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
With the budget system you are describing, budget speaker wire will not make an audible difference.
If you were using top end (or even mid-level) gear I would suggest using speaker wire of similar quality; You're not, so I won't.
2007-10-10 05:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by mrknositall 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HAHAHAHA...YES IT'S BEEN DONE...VERY FUNNY QUESTION...
You will need a bunch of phone wires to accomplish this. You should invest on the proper wiring though. IF you really want to save money try using an 18 gauge, two conductor speaker wire.
If you really want to use your phone wires. Sigh...it's will do the job. Provision alot of wires for-you will probably need at least 10 of those per speaker terminal to get something out of them.
2007-10-10 07:43:20 · answer #10 · answered by flip_can 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
as long as you use the same color on each end then yeah its fine Ive done it loads of times .
2007-10-10 06:16:48 · answer #11 · answered by lee b 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋