Connecting Speaker Wires

lastbuilders

Hi,

I have recently completed a self build and am looking at wiring my sitting room for surround sound. I got the electrician to run speaker cable to the room corners and back to one location where system will be located My question is what type of connectors do I need at the end where the cables join and at the other end where the speakers will be.


Lastbuilders

buzzard

You should'nt need connectors. The AMP will have its own locking pilar posts and the speaker should had a cable clamp

Homer

Have you also run a cable for a centre speaker which usually sits above or below the screen? How about a subwoofer? Or are both these items going to sit near where the amplifier goes?
Is the screen wall or table top mounted?

Slaphead07

lastbuilders wrote: »

My question is what type of connectors do I need at the end where the cables join and at the other end where the speakers will be.

Are you saying teh electrician left bare wire out of the wall?
If it's short then fit speaker sockets which will accept banana plugs. Like so...


If the cable is long enough to reach then speakers then leave it in a single run and just wrap the cable, having stripped 2cm or so to bare wire, around (or through) the binding post and clamp it tight.

lastbuilders

Thaks for the replies. i didn't ask the eletrtician to put any particular connector on the wiring. It is long enough to reach the speakers so I can use the clamping method as described. At the other end where the 4 wires return to the source is there a special joiner to join the 4 together?

I know these are "simple " questions but I am new to this. I put in a TV distribution system using a loftbox and ct100 cabling which is working great but I am a bit lost with the audio stuff.

Lastbuilders

The Ritz

Where the four wires come back, you don't join them together - you connect each pair to the left and right surround speaaker outputs from an AV receiver/DVD all-in one, or what ever source you're going to use.


Ritz.