chung wrote:

CajunUSA wrote:
Hello! I'm building onto my existing house, and I pre-wired one room
with speaker wire for a "surround sound" effect. (I plan to put a
speaker in each corner of the room, and the wires for these speakers
are now running inside the completed walls.)

Unfortunately, I now realize that my speaker wires are about 3 feet
too short, and so they don't extend to quite the right spot in the
room where I want to put my audio stack.

I _could_ put the stack in the spot were the four speaker wires come
out of the wall all together, but -- and this is my question -- would
it cause any obvious loss of audio quality to merely _add_ another
three feet of speaker wire between each short wire and the back of my
stack by just "splicing" the ends of the wires together (that is, by
twisting them around each other and wrapping them in electrical
tape)???

There is no audio or electrical issue with splicing the ends of the
wires and joining them to make a longer cable. But make sure that the
connection is mechanically reliable. You may want to consider soldering
the ends together and place heat-shrink tubing over the joints.

Another alternative is splicing each channel cable with a pair of pamona dual
bananas and in-line splices. Nothing more than a small srewdriver and a good
set of teeth or wire stripper to prepare the wire ends is needed.

That would be the definition of mechanically unreliable. I'd leave my
connections to Chung...
- Bill
www.uptownaudio.com
Roanoke VA
(540) 343-1250

"Nousaine" wrote in message
et...
chung wrote:

CajunUSA wrote:
Hello! I'm building onto my existing house, and I pre-wired one
room
with speaker wire for a "surround sound" effect. (I plan to put
a
speaker in each corner of the room, and the wires for these
speakers
are now running inside the completed walls.)

Unfortunately, I now realize that my speaker wires are about 3
feet
too short, and so they don't extend to quite the right spot in
the
room where I want to put my audio stack.

I _could_ put the stack in the spot were the four speaker wires
come
out of the wall all together, but -- and this is my question --
would
it cause any obvious loss of audio quality to merely _add_
another
three feet of speaker wire between each short wire and the back
of my
stack by just "splicing" the ends of the wires together (that is,
by
twisting them around each other and wrapping them in electrical
tape)???

There is no audio or electrical issue with splicing the ends of the
wires and joining them to make a longer cable. But make sure that
the
connection is mechanically reliable. You may want to consider
soldering
the ends together and place heat-shrink tubing over the joints.

Another alternative is splicing each channel cable with a pair of
pamona dual
bananas and in-line splices. Nothing more than a small srewdriver
and a good
set of teeth or wire stripper to prepare the wire ends is needed.

NEVER USE TEETH TO STRIP WIRE,
it hurts like hell when you get copper strands in your gum.

"Nousaine" wrote in message
et...
chung wrote:

CajunUSA wrote:
Hello! I'm building onto my existing house, and I pre-wired one room
with speaker wire for a "surround sound" effect. (I plan to put a
speaker in each corner of the room, and the wires for these speakers
are now running inside the completed walls.)

Unfortunately, I now realize that my speaker wires are about 3 feet
too short, and so they don't extend to quite the right spot in the
room where I want to put my audio stack.

I _could_ put the stack in the spot were the four speaker wires come
out of the wall all together, but -- and this is my question -- would
it cause any obvious loss of audio quality to merely _add_ another
three feet of speaker wire between each short wire and the back of my
stack by just "splicing" the ends of the wires together (that is, by
twisting them around each other and wrapping them in electrical
tape)???

There is no audio or electrical issue with splicing the ends of the
wires and joining them to make a longer cable. But make sure that the
connection is mechanically reliable. You may want to consider soldering
the ends together and place heat-shrink tubing over the joints.

Another alternative is splicing each channel cable with a pair of pamona
dual
bananas and in-line splices. Nothing more than a small srewdriver and a
good
set of teeth or wire stripper to prepare the wire ends is needed.

In article , "malcolm"
writes:

NEVER USE TEETH TO STRIP WIRE,
it hurts like hell when you get copper strands in your gum.


Another testimonial for SOLID conductors!

Steve Lampen
Belden Electronics Division