Speaker wireing, gold-red,, silver--black?

Question

gold-black,

silver-red

or

silver-black

gold-red

i think its the second one but i dont want to short out my speakers by being wrong

Answer 1

gold red is positive and silver black is negative

it makes a real difference when you are using powered speakers like powered sub wofers

Answer 2

hmm.... is it for a set of subs or are they home stereo speakers.  You could try it one way and test it at a low volume to see how it sounds and leave it set up on which ever sounds more full and that should be the right hookup.  I have done that before and never wrecked my speakers.

Answer 3

Totally with sdiver24... here.

Whichever way you connect the cable to your amp, connect the same to the speaker.

Oh and I hope you didn't spend a fortune on those cables because speakers are fed an electric current and any extension chord would do a wonderful job. Or you can pick a 12 or 14 gauge cable from Home Depot dirt cheap.

Answer 4

You can not ruin a speaker by installing it backward only if you check with the volume up a lot. Use the correct test tone to determine the proper phase of the speaker.

resistance is futile ( if > 1 Ω)

Answer 5

From a power theory, it looks obvious that the gold is red and the silver is black, representing .....+ plus (gold/red) ....and -negative (silver/black)    Without seeing your instructions, nobody can be sure. But, there's good news, if you got them opposite to what I suggest, you will not do any damage, the speakers will just move their cones in the reverse direction as they are supposed to do, you just then reverse the terminals.

Answer 6

Everyone appears way off base with their answers here. The answer is that it really doesn't matter what color connects to what. The real important thing to get correct is that if you connect "gold" to the "red(or other color)" terminal on the amplifier it MUST go to the red terminal on the speaker.

Then if you connect silver to black on the receiver it MUST connect to black on the speaker.

The opposite is also ok(gold to black on speaker and gold to black on receiver/silver to red on speaker and silver to "red(or other color)" on receiver.