Quick and lame question, I know

Systems

I ran my rears today with some new cable that I bought for my basement walls. I’m posting this real fast because they are sitting 6 inches form my computer chair. Most cable has printing on one of the wires so you can make it + and then the non printed can be your "-".

But I cant friggen tell with these wires and my line tester is at work.

I’m sitting here swapping the cables to + and to - to see which one sounds right and they both sound exactly the same lol.

At the speaker

black = +
Red = -

then

red = +
black = -


What am I missing. What happens if I get them backwards?

say:

amp+ = speaker -
amp- = speaker +

MGPK

The sound from your rears will be out of phase, generally when speakers are wired this way they will lack a proper soundstage and sound hollow. It might be a little more difficult to tell on rears given the lack of information going to them compared to the front channels. Try using 5 or 7 channel stereo to test out their polarity.

michael_w

FXI5's are showing black is positive and red negative? That doesn't sound right... I wonder if the nuts were just taken off and switched.

If it's not too much trouble, run the speakers two channel. You should notice they lack a lot of bass hooked up one way (out of phase + wrong polarity).

Systems

MGPK wrote: »

The sound from your rears will be out of phase, generally when speakers are wired this way they will lack a proper soundstage and sound hollow. It might be a little more difficult to tell on rears given the lack of information going to them compared to the front channels. Try using 5 or 7 channel stereo to test out their polarity.

Awesome advice, I forget about the "all stereo" option

dudeinaroom

easy check. Hook the wires up to the speakers, un-hook them from your amp/receiver. take a aa battery and touch each of the leads to each side of the battery, if your woofer moves out take the wire that is on the + side of the battery and hook it up to the + side of your amp. If it moves in hook the wire on the + side to the negative terminal.

gwh

Best to use a 9v.....then stick your tongue on it when finished.;)





G

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Thx guys

VXR8

MGPK wrote: »

The sound from your rears will be out of phase, generally when speakers are wired this way they will lack a proper soundstage and sound hollow. It might be a little more difficult to tell on rears given the lack of information going to them compared to the front channels. Try using 5 or 7 channel stereo to test out their polarity.

Aren't the FXi5s (if that is what you have) bi-pole and di-pole speakers? If so, won't they be out of phase anyway depending on the bi-pole or di-pole setting? Just food for thought

george daniel

gwh wrote: »

Best to use a 9v.....then stick your tongue on it when finished.;)





G

Do it first

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My rears are RT12 floor standing. My surrounds are FXi5

dudeinaroom

set them to di-pole for the battery test.