Ceiling speaker wiring help


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Old 11-26-19, 02:51 PM
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Ceiling speaker wiring help

House was prewired on new construction, just put speakers in.

Left speaker has 4 wires - red, black, green white
Right speaker has 2 sets of wires ran - (2) red, (2) green

Central close has 1 wire ran to it - red, black, green, white

I’m assuming I have to tie the speakers together somehow. Which wires should go to which speaker.

On the right do I just tie the 4 together - (2) green and (2) red? I was thinking there were 2 sets of wire in the closet but there’s not.

 
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Old 11-26-19, 03:02 PM
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How many sets are in the closet ?
Are there also rear channel speakers ?
 
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Old 12-01-19, 05:18 AM
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It is not mandatory to wire speakers to each other unless two or more speakers will be fed by the same amplifier channel.

Leaving the equipment closet, you need two wires going to each speaker (to the first speaker of each group).

Best to start by drawing a diagram of how each wire (or how each cable) is run.
 
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Typically a speaker is wired only using two conductors. Since your left and right have four wires I would look to see if one set of each pair is for your rear left and right surround channels.

It is also unusual to have four conductors to the front center channel. Do you have front left and right speakers? Are they wired with the front center channel's wires or do they have their own wires?
 
 

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