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What kind of wire is this

post #1 of 5
3/12/10 at 9:53am
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Hello,

I just purchased a new home that is pre-wired with 5.1 surround sound and I tried to set up my home theater system yesterday.  When I opened up the covers, and stripped back the jacket, I noticed they consisted of a black insulated wire, one white insulated wire, and a bundle of un-insulated silver wire.  All of this was wrapped in a thin silver foil, and over that a grey rubber jacket.  I am only familiar with two stranded speaker wire so can someone please tell me what kind of wire I am dealing with.
Edited by astroboy604 - 3/12/10 at 10:54am
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post #2 of 5
3/12/10 at 10:03am
Your home theater in a box has a passive sub and therefore can't use the coaxial cable.  Most of us that use stand alone home theater receivers use powered subs.  In fact I use 50 feet of RG-6 coaxial cable as my sub cable.
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post #3 of 5
3/12/10 at 10:11am
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thanks Robert!

Any ideas about the speaker wire I have pre-installed?
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post #4 of 5
3/12/10 at 2:19pm
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thanks for all the help everyone!
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post #5 of 5
3/12/10 at 7:05pm
I have no idea on the other wire.  You could use the black and white insulated wires as speaker wire and ignore the silver wire.
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