Re: speaker wire deteriorates?

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.