glw82664 wrote:
I'm far from an audiophile and need help with some wiring.
I have an
old pioneer receiver that has an A/B switch. I use B for
satellite
speakers on my deck. Until recently, they worked fine
having run
about 30 feet of wire from where the receiver sits to the
speakers.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Yesterday, I moved the receiver to a room farther away and
had to
splice in about an extra 20 feet of wire. There are
actually three
splices in each wire now due to obstacles and such. Now,
when I turn
up the volume to even a moderate level the receiver stops
transmiting
the signal and starts clicking.

Odds are good that one or more of the splices is shorting
out.

I presume the extra wire I added is
the problem.

More likely - one of the the splices is shorting.

The wire I have been using, with success in other parts
of the house, is using a load of telephone line that I
came in to for
free. It has eight wires in each run so I split 4
positive and 4
negative. It adds up to roughly 14 gauge.

However, it might not be all copper.

I have checked,
re-checked, and re-checked again all the connections and
they are
correct so I presume the runs are simply too long for the
wire I am
using.

Frankly, a longer cable run should make the receiver less
sensitive to the speaker load.

Maybe upping to 12 gauge will help, but before spending
the
money I'm just looking for ideas here.

Well, 12 guage cable is pretty cheap - under $0.50 a foot at
one of the home improvement centers for fine-stranded 12
gauge 2 conductor low voltage wire. I paid about $50 for 250
feet, list time I needed some.