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Embarassing electrical question

Hi
Considering that i always hated physics in school i have this silly question, but first let me explain.While upgrading female RCAs on my cd player to WBT Nextgens,i encountered a wiring configuration where a positive wire was soldered to a connector and the ground was connected via a figure 8 washer to both female rcas.Nexgen being a plastic body i figured i cannot replicate the same thing so i called WBT for an advice.I was told that i can connect the ground by the way of soldering any cheap wire that i can find in my house and that it would in no way affect the sound.My question is:does it work the same way for the speakers in a way that i can upgrade only the positive binding post and leave the other one untouched?Please,explain.
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plato
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No! no one would ever do that! The negative speaker post is not the same as the common ground on the input RCA's.

What would you do then -- use only the positive leg of some really exotic speaker cables and RadioShack 16-gauge for the Negative leg? It just doesn't make sense.
plato
1,543 posts
 
Well, you can do that if you want, and it will work -- it just wouldn't be the best approach... I've never heard of anyone mismatching speaker binding posts.
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