Speaker Wiring Discovery

[kberg]

All,

Just to confirm this doesn't make a difference, I wired up all of my speakers with the "markings" on one speaker line all going to the negative terminals of all speaker terminals. The "markings" were so small that I now find out that they are marked as positive (with little "+" signs)!

My question is... It shouldn't matter that the "+" lines are all going to the negative terminals and the unmarked lines are all going to the positive terminals, right? As long as they are ALL connected this way, I shouldn't have any phasing issues, correct? I mean, the plus marked wire doesn't HAVE to go to the positive terminals, since speaker wire is speaker wire?

[HBombToo]

Thats correct...

I use the smaller cable for the bedroom that has the Ribbed line on 1 side so for my dumb ass to keep it straight I came up with the following.

Ribbed is Right which is Red. ;)

HBomb

[TonyPTX]

That's a correct statement. Performance wise, the only way it would affect your system is if the two wires are not of the same quality (i.e. the positive wire is made of a purer copper than the negative wire.) Hardly likely, but possible.