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#23244 - 03/04/04 05:19 PM Standard cable boot scheme?
NYC-EMT Offline
Gunslinger

Registered: 02/02/04
Posts: 23
Is there a standard scheme for cable boots when you get into HT? What would be the colors used for the 6 cable Universal player to pre/pro setup?

R front: red
L front: white
R rear: ?
L rear: ?
Center: ?
Sub: ?

Does anyone know of "label stickers" that are availible in colors for this use?

When my career in computers was more involved with cabling we used this:
http://cableorganizer.com/wire-marker/
but it was used to mark cable numbers which would seem easy enough for HT use but I was hoping that maybe there is a cable coloring standard.

Thanks!

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#23245 - 03/04/04 05:26 PM Re: Standard cable boot scheme?
gonk Offline
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Registered: 03/21/01
Posts: 14054
Loc: Memphis, TN USA
THX does have a standard for color coding of left surround, right surround, center, and sub, but aside from (most) THX-approved receivers you don't see the standard used much. I have never seen it used on interconnects.

In lieu of nice cable markers like those you linked to, I've used blue painter's masking tape and a black Sharpie to ID a number of longer interconnects in my system.

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#23246 - 03/04/04 05:35 PM Re: Standard cable boot scheme?
soundhound Offline
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Registered: 04/10/02
Posts: 1857
Loc: Gusev Crater, Mars
I've never even seen the THX color scheme. You can always use the standard resistor color code for 0-9

Black = 0
Brown = 1
Red = 2
Orange = 3
Yellow = 4
Green = 5
Blue = 6
Violet = 7
Grey = 8
White = 9

And as a bonus, you'll be able to read the value of resistors - very useful skill in these days of chip components.

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