Speaker flex

If its a case of the standard hi-fi and surroound sound cables with just two seperate wires and a red and black clip socket at either end then no, it doesn't really matter. If for some chance your system doesn't allow the wires to be put in any old how, the worst that will happen is that the speaker won't work till you swap them round.

If its a seperate pair of cables that run co-axial connections or soemthing similar then yes, it does matter as to which way round you install them.
 
As long as its red to red and black to black it wont be a problem. If they are the other way around, the speaker movement is reversed and can cause crackling and distorion. Dunno about co-axial myself though so cannot comment.
 
krisboats said:
If its a case of the standard hi-fi and surroound sound cables with just two seperate wires and a red and black clip socket at either end then no, it doesn't really matter. If for some chance your system doesn't allow the wires to be put in any old how, the worst that will happen is that the speaker won't work till you swap them round.

If its a seperate pair of cables that run co-axial connections or soemthing similar then yes, it does matter as to which way round you install them.
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Actually, the speakers will be out of "phase" if the red and black wires are not plugged in correctly. You will get muffled, degraded sound.
 
if all your speakers go red-black then will it still sound bad?

I've always just put them red-red and black-black because it's what you're supposed to do, but never really understood why.
 
My surround sound cables got replaced with all black ones, short of following each side for the entire length of the wire i wouldn't have any way of deciding which side is which. Still sounds alright.
 
Rebelius said:
if all your speakers go red-black then will it still sound bad?

I've always just put them red-red and black-black because it's what you're supposed to do, but never really understood why.
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The sound quality will be degraded due to the speakers being out of phase. Basically, some frequencies will cancel each other out. Think of a sound wave and if it is out of phase, think of it being reversed thus cancelling out the waveform.

http://www.thx.com/home/dvd/optimizer/speakerPhase.html
 
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but if all the speakers are out of phase, surely they're really all in phase with each other? no?

i know that if one speaker goes red-black and the other goes red-red and black-black then there will be cancellation of certain frequencies because they're out of phase with each other.

but if all speakers are "out of phase" what is there to be out of phase with?
 
Just hook them all up the same way.

Otherwise one speaker will be pushing out while the other one will be pulling in...in other words...out of phase.
 
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