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Connecting two wires together.

What kind of setup we talking here?

Crimp connectors work great, but you may be able to get away with using plain ol' wire nuts.
 
I'm just making a diy aux jack for my car's stock head unit. The stock head unit has an input in the back for an aux jack. I was able to buy the connector that plugs into the head unit's input. It has four wires (left, right, ground, not sure what the fourth wire is for). I bought a RCA left / right to 1/8" miniplug jack cable to connect to this four wire connector. The person I bought the connector from left a little bit of each of the four wires attached to the connector so that I could easily attach this new 1/8" miniplug jack to it.
 
Soldering (if done correctly) is the best and is more permanent. Crimp connectors are fine too. Use whatever way is more convenient. You will not notice a difference in sound quality.
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
Soldering (if done correctly) is the best and is more permanent. Crimp connectors are fine too. Use whatever way is more convenient. You will not notice a difference in sound quality.
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:thumbsup:

Pretty much solder it if its meant to be permanent. If you think you may want to attach/detach it ever/often go crimp.
 
Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you want to join two wire and do it without making a bulge in the connection or shortening the wires, use a western union splice.

so named for the old days when a telegraph wire would break and you didn't have extra wire to put it back together and needed a strong connection
http://workmanship.nasa.gov/gu...v_recmeth_wusplice.jsp
Old ham radio habits die hard 🙂
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Yeah, but a little hard for stranded wire 😱
 
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