Power and Speaker wires

[cool9 10+ year member]

Can you run power and speaker wires next to each other? How far apart do you have to keep RCA cables and power wires (8 gauge) apart?

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[azngotskills 10+ year member]

Can you run power and speaker wires next to each other?

Yes

How far apart do you have to keep RCA cables and power wires (8 gauge) apart?

As far as possible, there have been some people that have run them together without noise problems but there are others who have. I guess it really depends on the quality of the wires and the kinda of signal you are running. I would try to run the power cables on one side and the singal cables (RCAs) on the other.

 

[bibby 5,000+ posts]

Oppositte sides of the car if possible.

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

Im running mine RIGHT next to each other... nooo noise what soever... its vehicle dependant... :|

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

As far as possible, there have been some people that have run them together without noise problems but there are others who have. I guess it really depends on the quality of the wires and the kinda of signal you are running. I would try to run the power cables on one side and the singal cables (RCAs) on the other.

I would suggest that the former portion of that statement has much more to do with the possibility of interference entering the signal path rather than the latter. What exactly are you meaning by "the kinda signal you are running" ?

Opposite sides of the car if possible.

This has been discussed ad nauseum and there is no definitive proof that running power/signal cabling next to one another has anything to do with the introduction of interference into your stereo. Use quality cabling and ground all your components properly. Do those two things and the physical location of the wiring should be immaterial.

Im running mine RIGHT next to each other... nooo noise what soever... its vehicle dependant... :|

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