Basic Speaker Wiring Question

[bdo21]

I have what I am sure is a basic wiring question. I have some Triad speakers and want to get them out of the shed, wired and installed in the ceiling. I will have C4, a Triad matrix and Triad amplifiers - they are not intstalled yet but my wife wants the shed space and to fill the ceiling holes!

The first room is a TV room with two ceiling speaker holes. It looks like I have a single four core speaker cable from the central AV location which passes one speaker hole with a loop and then goes to the other speaker hole where it terminates.

What do I do with the wires? Presumably I cut the wire at the first speaker hole? How do I wire the 4 input terminals of the speakers?
 

Thanks for your help!

[SMHarman]

http://wiki.gohts.com/tiki-index.php?page=Speaker+Wire+Color+Codes

So connect the black and red of the two core to the black and red of the four core.

The black and red are then the left channel pair in the hole with the two core.

The white and green are the pair for the right speaker.

Connect to the amp at the other end with the same wiring arrangement and boom tikka tsk, away you go.

[bdo21]

Thank you - that is very helpful. Just to check, I have just one four core cable that currently passes both speaker locations. Should I cut through the full cable and then re-join the white and green cores across the two segments of cable to continue on to the other speaker (where I will ignore the red and black cores)? I assume so - it sounds quit fiddly to just cut the red and black cores to connect to the first speaker without cutting the other two cores.

[SMHarman]

I would

1 tape / tie a string to the end of the wire so it can always be repulled.

2. carefully cut the insulation a couple of feet down from the first location on the way to the second location.

3. Snip the two wires to keep and the first location.

4. Carefully cut the insulation at the first location then pull these two cut wires back out of the insulation so the are hanging free near the speaker.

5. Tape both those cuts.

6. Connect the wires.

The less breaks in a wire the better. The fewer connections to have problems with over time. Spend the time now to save time later.

The outer cover on this is loose usually, not like HV electrical cable so a box cutter or pocket knife or nail scissors can do this cut on the outer cover easily