First of all, why even try to use the wrong kind of wire when you can go out and buy speaker wire for dirt cheap. Besides, something worth doing is worth doing right. Just buying speaker wire will save you lots of trouble. Am I correct in thinking that AV stands for Audio-Visual? If so, then it probably wont work anyway because it is made to have a metal tip and be inserted into an entirely different kind of input than speaker wire. Also, it may not even have the correct wire inside it and definately has at least one extra wire for the video siganl. To put it simply, dude, Just go buy some SPEAKER WIRE at Radio Shack!!!!
Can you use the red & black AV cables as speaker wire if you strip them? I stripped the wires, and found another insulated wire inside, along with some copper wiring and tried to hook them up to my speakers, to no avail. My mother is insistent that it should work, but I tell her we have to go buy actual speaker wire. Either that or these speakers are busted (which ishighly possible since we just found them at a house we purchased).
Thanks for your help,
Mitch

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