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Ok, I cant be the first person that this has happened to my saddlebag lid speaker wires broke into because I fill the saddle bags too much and the cargo pushes against the speaker connector.
My question is in repairing it. It would appear that the white wire out of the magnet (which broke super short next to the connectors) just goes to the positive connector tab? And the black to the negative? Its inside the plastic casing that I cant get to open up easily but it appears thats the case. So if thats true (and stop me if its not). Can I just bypass that short part of the wire and connect the longer piece to its corresponding tab directly without the little piece? (Little pieces are too small to salvage.
It seems to make sense but Im not a speaker expert so I thought Id ask first.
Won't make a lick of difference, a speaker is nothing more than a coil of wire, it's not polarity sensitive.
Speakers are absolutely polarity sensitive. Reversing it makes them drive in the wrong direction and lose sound quality and oomph. You can even damage speakers by reversing the polarity. The voice coils can get stuck on their inward pulse and not return to the neutral position.
OP, yes, you can extend the wires. Just throw a couple spade connectors and hook them back up.
Speakers are absolutely polarity sensitive. Reversing it makes them drive in the wrong direction and lose sound quality and oomph. You can even damage speakers by reversing the polarity. The voice coils can get stuck on their inward pulse and not return to the neutral position.
OP, yes, you can extend the wires. Just throw a couple spade connectors and hook them back up.
Inverted polarity can cause a variety of changes to sound quality, but is it also dangerous for your amplifier and speakers? The answer is no, thankfully.
The voltages being applied to a speaker with inverted polarity are no different from those supplied to a speaker with correct polarity. Your equipment will not be damaged. The worst thing that will happen is that it will not work well acoustically with properly wired speakers. For this reason, its best to stick to the standard, and ensure correct wiring."
I couldn't tell you how many speakers I've wired in my lifetime but it's probably in the hundreds and I've experimented with polarity in the past, now maybe I don't have the ears of a highly refined audiophile but I could tell no difference in the sound. A speaker is about as simple as can be, it's a coil of wire, run current through it and it forms an electromagnet, that electromagnet is attached to a paper diaphragm causing it to move rapidly which changes air pressure creating sound waves. An electromagnet could care less which direction the current flows.
If you're concerned with adequately extending the wire, get yourself some heat shrink solder connectors along with a small bit of same gauge wire and extend them. Easiest way to do it if you don't care for regular soldering and shrink tubing.
Since the wires from the amp connect to these same speaker posts, couldnt I extend the wires that broke from the speaker and connect them to those wires that come from the amp, which will then connect to the speaker posts? Shouldnt matter since they are all connected anyway?
also here is the other side of the loud speaker if that I do helps
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