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Out of phase speakers cancel out frequencies of other speakers and make some really weird sounds that will significantly degrade the sound in several ways. It affects frequecy response, imaging and sound staging.

If you have an ohm meter, you could do a continuity test to find which wire matches at each end and then mark with colored tape or a cable tags. If the speaker wire is that cheap not to have identifiers on it, is it even oxygen free you have to ask. Years ago my friend custom built her million...

When you saying home theater wiring, do you mean center and surround channels? Technically, the installer should had used the same speaker cable on all the channels. If they are not marked at all, the cable is useless and flawed. It should have some type of marking. Good luck

Well, using a magnifying glass ;), most speaker cable has markings to distinguish the negative from the positive. My living room system cable has very small "+" printed on the positive cable section. They are so small, they can look like a black line. Now my media room system cable has just a...

So no output at all? If that's the case, check your speaker cable so that those singles strands, that are hard to see, aren't shorting out that channel. If you use banana plugs, make sure the set screw is tight as I had that issue on my center channel speaker wire on the new receiver I...

So what is actually wrong with it?