OK before I start, sorry about the flood of posts from me over the last days… I have just finished catching up with 22 pages of posts.
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You have no idea how glad I am to see that. nearly 500 posts in a row, ugh!!! Should be back to my normal ridiculous level of posts now
Aaaanyway, a question. When it comes to wiring audio etc:
Red = Right
or
Red = Left
Now, I’m not so much interested in how *you* do it (feel free to tell me anyway), I’m trying to find out if there is a *right* way. I know it doesn’t make any difference and the electrons really don’t care about the colour of the shielding, but it’s one of these things I’ve always wondered about. I mean… historically speaking, it’s always been red = port = left. Look at a boat or aircraft. And it’s been that way for centuries… And if we’re talking about stereo, then left = red makes sense too because if a mono jack is inserted then only the left (red) wire is in use, and red is usually the ‘active’ wire in circuitry land, AFAIK…
But I know that most people, wire red=right. The only logic I can apply to that, is that they both start with ‘R’.
But seriously though, it seems crazy to me, to dispense with hundreds of years of protocol, and start doing it a new way, because in some languages, they have the same letter at the start… I can’t help but wonder if there is any logic to it but that? Perhaps it’s the sheeple factor; one guy didn’t know about red=left, did red=right, and everyone else did it because he did…
