RE: Unterminated speaker cable

["John Risby" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi richard,

thanks for your reply.

> 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.

do you mean the look of them? if you do, it doesn't really matter as
they are inside a cupboard anyway.

or do you mean the audio quality? is there anything wrong with banana
plugs? they were just the first outlets I saw (from LetsAutomate).

> 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..

sorry, do you mean put a plug on the currently unterminated end at node
zero? I was just going to wrap the ends of the cable in insulating tape.
as things stand, there is no chance anyone else would hook anything up
to the cables.

thanks
john


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