View Full Version : Can I run High Level Audio on Low Level Cable?


dimes007
05-19-07, 10:19 PM
I already ran low level audio from my equipment stack to my subwoofer location inwall.

Now I'd greatly prefer a passive subwoofer with outboard amp in my main stack.

The cable already in the wall is the Belden 1505F.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/pages/technicaldocs/1505Ftech.htm

I have the required two conductors needed to pass speaker level audio but am I crazy to pass big sub amp power (Velodyne) over that cable?

Note that moving the outboard sub amp near the location of the sub is not an option.

Thanks,

--dimes

ransac
05-19-07, 10:42 PM
Too much current for 21 gauge wire. If you didn't staple the wire down, you could use one coax cable as a pull wire to fish 12 AWG speaker wire through the wall.

I haven't ever tried it, but maybe, just maybe, you can use the shield as the conductor. But I wouldn't recommend it.

Targus
05-20-07, 10:14 AM
I haven't ever tried it, but maybe, just maybe, you can use the shield as the conductor.

Well, the shield is a conductor, and is used as a conductor, so, if you have two runs of this coax, then use the sheilds....it'll be fine.

dimes007
06-08-07, 02:53 PM
UPDATE: So I also have a component video cable that I don't need to use since I ran DVI as well. So...

If I have a component cable and a subwoofer cable = 4 coax.
Use 2 cables (that's two shields and two cores) for +
and 2 cables (that's two shields and two cores) for -

....is that enough copper to get the job done for speaker level?

What is the approximate gauge of a typical shield in a low level speaker cable?

Thanks,