the Red Eft
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Hi! I just unpacked an SR-3/SRD-5 combo that I snagged on eBay last weekend, and I'm excited to try it out...But the speaker wires that are supposed to connect the SRD-5 to my amp seem to have been monkeyed with, and I don't know what to make of it. Let me explain:
The wires for the right channel are red and black, and the wires for the left channel are white and blue. But the end of the black wire has been soldered to the end of the blue wire, and the ends of the red and white wires have each been doubled up and taped with electrical tape.
The free ends of the red and white wires that stick out of the tape are thinner than the ends that go into the tape, and there's no exposed wire --- the coating goes right up to the end. You can kind of see them in the top right auction picture.
I've e-mailed the seller about it, and I guess if it comes to it I can just snip off the ends of the wires and proceed as I expected to, hooking up these wires like ordinary speaker cables...But why the solder? What exactly is going on here?
The wires for the right channel are red and black, and the wires for the left channel are white and blue. But the end of the black wire has been soldered to the end of the blue wire, and the ends of the red and white wires have each been doubled up and taped with electrical tape.
The free ends of the red and white wires that stick out of the tape are thinner than the ends that go into the tape, and there's no exposed wire --- the coating goes right up to the end. You can kind of see them in the top right auction picture.
I've e-mailed the seller about it, and I guess if it comes to it I can just snip off the ends of the wires and proceed as I expected to, hooking up these wires like ordinary speaker cables...But why the solder? What exactly is going on here?