RCA wiring (1 Viewer)

[Geoff P]

When renovating my house, my contractor pulled 2.5mm speaker wire throughout. Unfortunately it's the type that has the +/- wires side-by-side. My problem is that I now need to attach the wire to an RCA plug.

How do I reduce the thickness of the wire/sheath so that I can attach the plug?

Any help greatly appreciated.
Geoff

 

[Brian Fellmeth]

One way to do it is solder the speaker wire to 1/4 inch plug (the plug used in guitar cables) then use a 1/4 inch to RCA converter which are avaliable gold plated at a reasonable price. It looks like your planning to use a long run of unshielded speaker wire to carry a line level signal (to a sub ?) which runs a high risk of injecting hum and/or interfearence. Can you tie shielded cable to the speaker wire at one end and pull it through to the other ?

 

[Geoff P]

Thanks Brian, I'll give the 1/4 inch solution a shot first and see how it sounds. But I suspect you're right and I'll need to re-pull some better quality wire.