Hey guys,


I finished my install...you may remember me from the other threads asking various shit about amps, speakers etc. Well, it's all in, thankfully.

Here's my last question about this though, and it may be stupid...on my polk db252 components, from the tweeters and woofer, one speaker wire is gray, theo ther is gray with a red stripe. Which one of these is positive? Is there a standard?

This is the diagram on my manual. One wire is solid black, the other is like a "white line" so to speak. Take a look: which is pos, which is neg?

12/25/2005 10:07:42 AM

12/25/2005 10:09:45 AM

usually the one with teh stripe is positive...

12/25/2005 12:04:17 PM

red is hot black is not

12/25/2005 12:27:44 PM

Usually the connectors are made so that you can only wire them one way and they should be listed as to which is possitive on the terminals themselves. Possitive is typically the bigger terminal... then you match that up to the connector on the crossover...

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"red is hot black is not "

just don't ever use that logic to wire a home

(AC wiring... Black is hot, white is nuetral, green is earth ground)

12/25/2005 1:50:13 PM

well it looks like it tells ya on the mid-woofer, but i may be wrong...looks like its "+" is stripe, and "-" is black..

12/25/2005 4:15:40 PM

Thanks a bunch guys....

12/25/2005 4:48:31 PM

i've never EVER seen a wire with a stripe on it that's NOT hot (+)...i'm talkin DC here.

12/25/2005 8:49:53 PM

you can you a battery to test this also.. 9v or AA should work just fine.. if speaker pops up its +

12/26/2005 10:41:09 AM

I'm amazed you got the system in at all at this point. I know the question has been answered but:

1) You didn't even get the model number right in your post. It is db525 (from the manual) OR db5250 (from the website).

2) You say one wire is gray and the other wire is gray with a stripe. Then your manual is black and black with a stripe. Is this hard to figure out? The cables have color while the manual is in BLACK AND WHITE. So in both cases you have a solid wire and a wire with a stripe. Which is which do you think?

3) From the picture of the mid-woofer one spade is larger than the other. Do you think you could have connected that up and determined (by which one fit) which wire was positive?

4) From the manual is states and I quote:

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"6. Connect wires from the tweeter terminals of the Crossover to the tweeter itself using the faston connectors. Connect the red wire from the (+) terminal of the Crossover tweeter output to the red (+) wire from the tweeter."

From that do you think the wire with ANY red on it would be the positive wire?

5) Even after all of this, the real answer is it doesn't matter! It is only wire. If you are consistent it will work either way. All you had to do was pick one wire to be positive. From the picture you would have seen that for the amp connection the stripe wire is actually in the - terminal while the stripe is in the + terminal for all the other connections.

The other thread turned into a load of crap. In your manual for these speakers (if you would actually READ it) this is on page 2:

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"Safe Limits of Operation Damage to loudspeakers can occur when an amplifier, regardless of its wattage, is made to play at higher listening levels than it can produce at low distortion levels. This is usually beyond the “noon or 1 o’clock” position on the volume control. Operation at this level can result in very high levels of audible distortion originating in the amplifier, which can add a harsh, gritty sound to your listening material. Contrary to popular belief, a speaker is more likely to be damaged by trying to get too much volume from a low-powered amplifier or receiver than from a high-powered one."

Which pretty much answers your first question.

12/27/2005 5:47:21 PM

Why did you feel compelled to post so much, especially after you stated this:

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"I know the question has been answered"

12/27/2005 8:27:53 PM

I can play random questions too....

Why do you care?


I think boredom is the answer for > 50% of the posts on TWW.

12/27/2005 9:13:48 PM