[Scgeeks] Re: Audio problem DAMMIT

[Indigo]

"Indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> "AndrewB" <loyal at spamcop.user> wrote in message 
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>> You'll have to try it and see.  I don't think you'll have any major 
>> issues.  But experience will be the indicator.
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> Guy at Radio Shack said a 30 ft run shouldn't be a problem. I finally got 
> to use some of that pile of speaker wires I've been accumulating for the 
> last 30 years ;-) I found two separate harnesses that luckily had matching 
> covered connectors on each end, so that saved me from having to solder 
> together the two pairs of wire. Just got the female jack I needed (forgot 
> to pick it up when I was at RS on Saturday), going to finish the job after 
> I read the new SC posts.

CRAP! I _knew_ in the back of my feeble brain that a ground wire was 
probably missing but couldn't figure out how to implement it (and the DC 
wire harnesses I had a stash of were from car speaker systems, only needed 
two wires). I finally got everything hooked up, and when I plugged 
everything in my PC speakers still worked fine, so far so good. But when I 
plugged the cables into the stereo, all I got was "huuummmmm". Signal was 
only coming in from one channel. Discovered that the second wire was 
actually a ground, not a signal. I _was_ curious as to why the strain 
reliefs in the 3.5 mm jacks had little holes drilled in them, like there was 
supposed to be a wire soldered there.....guess I need to go buy a 3 wire 
hunk of cable and repeat the excersise, correctly this time, I hope....or I 
could strip one wire from the spare pieces I have and splice them together 
to make up the ground wire. I don't think I've ever seen 18 gauge 3 wire 
speaker cable before in a store, but it must exist, right?