Audio Wiring Guide

1	Basic Information

Introduction

I wrote this book out of an ongoing sense of frustration with bad workmanship in audio wiring. After 40 years in the recording studio business, the studios I’ve seen that were correctly wired could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Often the people who had done the wiring were highly intelligent, motivated individuals. But craftsmanship is not synonymous with either intelligence or motivation. True craftsmanship also requires a thorough understanding of the materials you’re working with, an understanding that can be gained only through experience. In this book I’ll be sharing with you the experience I’ve gained during decades of audio/video wiring.

The Audio Wiring Guide (hereafter AWG) is designed ...