Positive speaker wires have a positive symbol or a negative symbol to indicate the corresponding connector on the wires.
Blue and white speaker wire which is positive.
Recognize that the black wire is the positive one the white wire is the negative one and the green wire is the ground.
When you re hanging a chandelier or any other ceiling light first find the 3 wires coming out of the hole in the ceiling where the light will go.
The negative wire will usually be copper in color for this same instance.
However most speaker wires don t do colors.
The most common color coding used in wires are copper and silver.
Identify the black positive wire on a ceiling light fixture.
Good news is with speakers it doesn t really matter which one you choose as your positive and which as your negative just so long as you are consistent.
If your wire has light colored insulation this stripe or dash may be dark.
In other words the insulation is clear.
The left because we do many things from left to right.
It is easy to check the bare wire colors and material or even markings.
When this is the case usually the silver wire will be the positive polarity and the copper wire will be negative.
A common color code that is used is black for negative and red for positive.
Every speaker wire will have an indicator to tell them apart such as color.
Typically the positive wire is red and the ground or negative is black.
This leaves the green and white or yellow conductors for the right speaker.
Most of the high end positive speaker wires are see through or bare.
Some terminals are also color coded.
In some high end speaker wires the insulation is transparent or see through enough to see the bare wires.
If a speaker wire doesn t have a two tone color scheme look for a single stripe or dashed lines these usually indicate the positive end along one of the sides.
This can help you make out easily which speaker wire is positive or which one is negative.
In dealing with speaker wires the positive speaker wire will be silver in color.