Comments on: Wiring a vintage stereo with regular speaker wire?

By: Guido

Guido — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:03:35 +0000

Usually the wire with the markings on it is the positive wire, it doesn’t matter until the sound is amplifed, in new recievers the system will shut off automatically. Even though the sound will work if you cross wire it you won’t get the high tones or overall clarity until to get a straight DC current.

By: gp4rts

gp4rts — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:58:05 +0000

The wire doesn’t care which one is positive or negative, but the amp and speakers do. So it doesn’t matter as long as you are consistent. Use the blue for positive and grey for negative in all instances and you are fine, but the other way around is ok also. Just keep it the same all the way through.

By: dsk

dsk — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:25:20 +0000

ivintage wire will work fine till u start to ues power!! 10watts and up u need to use bigger wire