Quick speaker wiring question
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Quick speaker wiring question
When you are soddering the wiring harness to the speaker wires, there are two different wires for each speaker and the wiring harness, which one is the colored one, and which one is the same colored one but with the black stripe down it? Which is positive which is negative? And for speakers is the bigger pole positive and the littler one negative?
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Re: Quick speaker wiring question (Justin79-L-82)
Justin, different manufacturers do things differently so I couldn't tell you exactly but the positive and negative lead are really for correct phasing. What you need to do is make sure all are the same, that is if you put the wires for left, right, front, rear etc with the black stripe to the small connector on the speaker all speakers will be phased correctly. Phasing is when the voce coil of the speaker is moving in the same direction on all speakers at the same time. Let's say a positive voltage across the coil cause the coil to move out on the magnet, you want all to move so the sound wave are being pushed in the same direction. For example if you have two speakers pointed at each other and they are out of phase when one speaker is moving out the other would be moving in and you would be cancelling out the sound of each speaker. But as an educated guess( I do commercial sound) I would tend to assume the large spade lug on the speaker is positive and the leads with a black stripe are negative. :cheers:
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Re: Quick speaker wiring question (69shark)
Justin, different manufacturers do things differently so I couldn't tell you exactly but the positive and negative lead are really for correct phasing. What you need to do is make sure all are the same, that is if you put the wires for left, right, front, rear etc with the black stripe to the small connector on the speaker all speakers will be phased correctly. Phasing is when the voce coil of the speaker is moving in the same direction on all speakers at the same time. Let's say a positive voltage across the coil cause the coil to move out on the magnet, you want all to move so the sound wave are being pushed in the same direction. For example if you have two speakers pointed at each other and they are out of phase when one speaker is moving out the other would be moving in and you would be cancelling out the sound of each speaker. But as an educated guess( I do commercial sound) I would tend to assume the large spade lug on the speaker is positive and the leads with a black stripe are negative. :cheers:
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Re: Quick speaker wiring question (Rockn-Roll)
I'm wiring an aftermarket system, new cdplayer, and new front and rear speakers. When i installed it last year it had terrible bass response so i took it apart last night and found that one of the rear speakers was wired wrong, so i took out all the stock wire and put in some 16 guage, and made sure everything was routed the same. Thanks for the info guys, it sounds alot better now
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From: Orrtanna Pa.
Re: Quick speaker wiring question (Justin79-L-82)
I agree with trying to phase your speakers for postarirty sake,but would like to meet the guy who can actually hear a speaker that is out of phase.We're talking nit picker here.
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