Hello All,
A little background on what I'm trying to do before I ask my question. After replacing carpeting with bamboo flooring, I decided to run surround speaker and subwoofer cables under the floor and terminate it on top of the new flooring using binding post mounting plates to keep things clean. Routing and terminating the speaker cables was easy, but I ran into a snag with the subwoofer cable. I decided to recycle an AR subwoofer cable I had by cutting off the old connectors ,routing this cable under the floor and terminating it with WBT RCA sockets. The AR cable is a dual conductor cable with foil shielding. Sounds easy enough, or so I thought. Upon stripping the insulation and exposing the conductors, I noticed another bare wire wound around the ground conductor. Should I solder this wire to ground on the socket along with the ground conductor?
Dissecting a pair of AR stereo RCA interconnects left me more confused. Only one plug out of four had this wire soldered to ground.
Thanks in advance for your help.
