[RiverChelt]

Got a 10-metre 2phono-2phono lead to take sound from the TV at the foot of my bed all the way around the room to the slimline hifi that is wall mounted above my bed. Obviously, lying in bed watching TV, the unit is behind me (although the speakers are actually on the side walls) and so the left hand unit speaker is on my right, and the right hand speaker on my left. I can't get to to the unit to swap the speaker output wires around, so I was just wondering if the red/white colour coding of 2-phone cables are purely just for your own reference, and if you plug red into white and white into red, you aren't going to damage anything? Would have kept as-is but watching Lord of the Rings last night it did make me feel a little dizzy with certain sounds travelling in the wrong direction! Probably a dumb question but just want to be sure in case I blow up my stereo!

[chrisjr]

All the red and white plugs do is identify the leads. So if you feed a signal into the red plug at one end of the lead it will come out of the red plug at the other end.

It makes no difference to the cable whether you plug the red plug on the lead into the red socket on the TV or stereo And it makes no differnce to either if you plug one end red to red and the other red to white.

All that happens is that instead of hearing the left channel output from the TV in the left loudspeaker it comes out of the right loudspeaker instead, and vice versa.

[RiverChelt]

Cheers. I was pretty sure they were only colour coded so you could identify which lead was carrying the left and right channel sound, just didn't want to risk swapping the plugs over in case there was some kind of positive/negative type thing going on. Will swap over when I get home then, cheers!

[rob1973]

As I used to say as an electrician, red to red, yellow to yellow and blue to bits!