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jdsmodulus wrote: I also should remind everyone using JBLS that red is negative and black is positive. This was never meant to be easy Ill tell ya!

That doesn't matter as long as you go red to red and black to black for parallel wiring. Speakers don't have polarity to themselves.

hogan wrote:

jdsmodulus wrote: I also should remind everyone using JBLS that red is negative and black is positive. This was never meant to be easy Ill tell ya!

That doesn't matter as long as you go red to red and black to black for parallel wiring. Speakers don't have polarity to themselves.

Yep. Only if you combine them with some other speaks or another cab... then you would have phase problems. Before moving around any of my speakers, I test them with a AA battery to make sure they're always wired positive forward just to avoid confusion down the line.

Any thoughts on stranded vs solid, Hogan? I'm also curious about the real vs conceptual loss of current being lost by the relatively small 1/4 jack connection. My power amp (MosValve 1500) runs anywhere from 380 - 500 watts running one channel or in bridged mode, so I'm not sure what the optimal gauge wire would be. I'm not planning on going higher than 14 in any event.

My favorite speaker wire is Canare 4S11 Star Quad 11 gauge speaker cable. There are actually 4 14g insulated cables within the housing. Not cheap but how many speaker cables to you need? These require larger plugs and I get them here:

https://procablensound.storesecured.com ... detail.htm

They offer a variety of jacks and lengths...you custom order what you want and they do a great job. I keep going back for more.

Here is the technical information on them:

http://www.canare.com/ProductItemDispla ... tItemID=65