Speakerwire question...

[Cuda1447]

Im hooking up my new receiver to my new speakers. The only speaker wire I have on one of them the copper is gone and its just a wire. Is it bad to use this wire? Will it affect quality or anything of that nature?

 

[Pepsi90919]

 

[mugs]

how the hell is it going to work if the copper is gone?

Do you mean the rubber is gone?

 

[Shawn]

what?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Im hooking up my new receiver to my new speakers. The only speaker wire I have on one of them the copper is gone and its just a wire. Is it bad to use this wire? Will it affect quality or anything of that nature?

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: mugs
how the hell is it going to work if the copper is gone?

Do you mean the rubber is gone?

No, the actual copper is gone. It looks like a metal piece sticking out now, no copper over it.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Originally posted by: mugs
how the hell is it going to work if the copper is gone?

Do you mean the rubber is gone?

No, the actual copper is gone. It looks like a metal piece sticking out now, no copper over it.

& :camera:'s please!

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Originally posted by: mugs
how the hell is it going to work if the copper is gone?

Do you mean the rubber is gone?

No, the actual copper is gone. It looks like a metal piece sticking out now, no copper over it.

& :camera:'s please!

My camera will not do a macro mode good enough for that.....

Just imagine the copper, except no copper and instead its a long metal looking piece. Kinda like a paperclip only a bit thicker/straight.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Excuse me sir, what is your boggle?

 

[smack Down]

Ny guess is that he is looking at speaker wire that has been tinned.

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: smack Down
Ny guess is that he is looking at speaker wire that has been tinned.

Only one side of it has been 'tinned' then... wtf. Im looking at the rest of my wire and realizing that none of them could possibly have this metal undernearth the copper...


/me is confused.


so, will it work?

 

[jadinolf]

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Originally posted by: smack Down
Ny guess is that he is looking at speaker wire that has been tinned.

Only one side of it has been 'tinned' then... wtf. Im looking at the rest of my wire and realizing that none of them could possibly have this metal undernearth the copper...


/me is confused.


so, will it work?

Yes, it will work. just be sure that no stray bits from the untinned side short across to the other. Twist them tightly.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Just imagine the copper, except no copper and instead its a long metal looking piece. Kinda like a paperclip only a bit thicker/straight.

I've seen cheap speaker wire like that, but I've never seen a wire that had that on one side and copper on the other side. You could try cutting a couple inches off and seeing if it's any different, or you could just try using it... Or you could buy some speaker wire that doesn't suck (just don't waste your money on Monster speaker wire )

 

[Howard]

I still have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Just imagine the copper, except no copper and instead its a long metal looking piece. Kinda like a paperclip only a bit thicker/straight.

I've seen cheap speaker wire like that, but I've never seen a wire that had that on one side and copper on the other side. You could try cutting a couple inches off and seeing if it's any different, or you could just try using it... Or you could buy some speaker wire that doesn't suck (just don't waste your money on Monster speaker wire )

It seems really sad that most of the stores now stock Monster wire as their everyday standard cables since it has a very high margin. I went to RadioShack and all they had in 14gauge was Monster. Same story with Target and some other stores.
Ended up buying Monster speaker wire by the foot off ebay by a very good vendor.

Home Depot as an exception fortunately still stocks something other than Monster so you can buy it by the foot without paying exaggerated prices.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I'm sorry for a bit of threadjacking, but I'd rather not make a new thread for a simple question:

I was looking at speaker design and have a quick question - a crossover circuit is used so that high frequencies get sent to the tweeter and low frequencies get sent to the woofer, correct?

 

[newParadigm]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
I'm sorry for a bit of threadjacking, but I'd rather not make a new thread for a simple question:

I was looking at speaker design and have a quick question - a crossover circuit is used so that high frequencies get sent to the tweeter and low frequencies get sent to the woofer, correct?

Yeph

 

[Tyrant222]

cant u just strip it to what its suppose to be. a small knife would do the trick...

 

[0roo0roo]

dont' worry about it. go to frys or radio shack and pickup some 16 guage wire in a little roll. cost u maybe 10 bucks for 30-50 feet, probably better than what u got. cut to lenth, strip off a bit of plastic at the end, twist the wires a bit and install. easy as pie

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Cuda1447

Just imagine the copper, except no copper and instead its a long metal looking piece. Kinda like a paperclip only a bit thicker/straight.

I've seen cheap speaker wire like that, but I've never seen a wire that had that on one side and copper on the other side. You could try cutting a couple inches off and seeing if it's any different, or you could just try using it... Or you could buy some speaker wire that doesn't suck (just don't waste your money on Monster speaker wire )

It seems really sad that most of the stores now stock Monster wire as their everyday standard cables since it has a very high margin. I went to RadioShack and all they had in 14gauge was Monster. Same story with Target and some other stores.
Ended up buying Monster speaker wire by the foot off ebay by a very good vendor.

Home Depot as an exception fortunately still stocks something other than Monster so you can buy it by the foot without paying exaggerated prices.

I hate free commerce when stupid people are involved. The stupid people who happily pay high prices and drive up profit margins ruin it.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: zoiks
It seems really sad that most of the stores now stock Monster wire as their everyday standard cables since it has a very high margin. I went to RadioShack and all they had in 14gauge was Monster. Same story with Target and some other stores.
Ended up buying Monster speaker wire by the foot off ebay by a very good vendor.

Home Depot as an exception fortunately still stocks something other than Monster so you can buy it by the foot without paying exaggerated prices.

Home Depot is what I was going to suggest as I read that. :thumbsup: