M-Audio AV 40 speaker wiring hook up..

[GrumpyMan]

I just bought some of these speakers, could someone help me on the best way to hook up the right to left speakers since the manual is not specific enough. It comes with a transparent wire for this, one side of the wire looks like it's made of aluminum or silver and the other is copper I do believe.
I've hooked up the copper to the Red (+) connectors and the silver or aluminum one to the Black (-). Is this correct or would the other way around be better? Or does it matter at all? I would imagine it matters of course otherwise they wouldn't supply this kind of wire and I'm not much of an electrician to be honest and I've always wondered about this since many stereo systems come with this type of wire too.
Thanks.

 

[sdifox]

as long as polarity is correct, who cares.

 

[GrumpyMan]

You're probably right, I was just wondering why they would make the wires with one side tin or silver and the other side copper for speakers? Surely there must be a reason?

Edit: Doing a little more research I see that both wires are made of copper, one being tinned copper and that they only do that so you can wire everything consistently through out the system. I thought they might be made of different materials and thus one better for positive than the other. But apparently this is not so.

 

[sdifox]

You're probably right, I was just wondering why they would make the wires with one side tin or silver and the other side copper for speakers? Surely there must be a reason?

Edit: Doing a little more research I see that both wires are made of copper, one being tinned copper and that they only do that so you can wire everything consistently through out the system. I thought they might be made of different materials and thus one better for positive than the other. But apparently this is not so.

Just make sure your source is higher than the speakers so the signal doesn't have to fight gravity :sneaky:

 

[GrumpyMan]

Just make sure your source is higher than the speakers so the signal doesn't have to fight gravity :sneaky:

OK got ya!!! Downhill all the way....