Re: Unterminated speaker cable

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> We're just finishing off our new kitchen extension and as part of it
we
> have wired in 2 pairs of ceiling speakers. The cables are terminated
> inside a cupboard on a banana plug wall socket, so the speakers can be
> driven by a local amp. I also want to run cable to node zero so I, or
> anyone in the future, can choose to use an amp from there instead of
one
> in the kitchen.

Ick, banana plugs are so ghetto for in wall use. I would replace them with
some
nice speakon plugs, which I believe also meet the loonie low voltage
requrements
which you have to have the crappy plastic binding posts to do otherwise.

> If I run speaker cable from the speakers to the wall sockets, and more
> cable from the wall sockets (connected to the same terminals) to node
> zero and leave those cables unterminated, will that cause a sound
> quality problem? (Will the sound "leak" out?) If so, is
there a way to
> do this correctly?

I would put a plug on a cable coming out of the wall. You run the risk of
someone hooking the other end up and having 2 amps hooked to 1 speaker and
toasting the both of them, or of the unterminated cable ending up shorting,
making your amp die too..


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