Re: speaker wire deteriorates?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"wkearney99" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Does speaker wire deteriorate that badly? Would they have installed
>> something really crummy?
>
>Sounds like something might have crimped the line and shorted out the wires.
>If you checked the wires without anything connected to either end you'd
>probably find they're shorted or grounded.  The trick them becomes finding
>where in the length of the line it's been shorted.  It may be easier to just
>re-run a new line rather than trying to fix that one.  Just label each end
>to keep you or future folks from trying to re-use ever again.

I concur. About 45 years ago I wired a lot of restaurants, supermarkets,
office buildings, shopping centers, etc. for sound in N. California. A
partial short where a few strands from one conductor touch the other
conductor can result in low volume. It usually has a fuzzy sound as well.