Pretty easy, the solder lugs on the connectors Knu uses are huge.

It helps if you have a 100 or 200W gun instead of a small pencil iron...it's going to be tough to get the connector hot enough to avoid cold joints if you're just using 30W or so...

But unless you're fixing a damaged cable, there's really no need to "cut it to length". Audio isn't like RF, if there's resonance in the cables something is seriously wrong

well guys speaking of noise, i have lil story thats good and bad.

i was in a situation yesterday where i was in slow lane on interstate doing about 65 and this younger lady in front of me was jamming along. we were on a straight away part of the interstate. She didnt notice but up ahead 3 of the cars up in front of her were slamming on there brakes to come to a complete stop. and she jamming along and at last moment just slamsss on her brakes and pulls right into the break down lane. Well because it was straight away and im in my 94 camry, (low with all weight of gear and it old suspension.) so i couldnt see in front of her. When she does this i immediately slammed on my breaks and looked to pull left but i was pinned in the lady in break down lane to right and 18 to left. so i was praying i could stop. i got the car down to around 25 - 30 mph before i hit the car in front of me in rear.

Well after this happened and we all scooted over, the couple got out while i stayed in car. and they had a laugh when they looked at their bumper and when they walked over to me. Both cars were camrys, both cars felt a very bigggg hitt when we collided, noone was hurt, not a scratch on either vehicle. no dents, no broken lights or anything. i hit them with a slight turn toward my left so only thing that happened to my car was i guess there is a 2 layer protection front end collision thing where it will damage a piece of metal closer to light assembly and grille before it hits engine chassis and what not. this was bent slightly, but didnt affect position of hood, lights, bumper. it affected the grille which was .5" slightly up on the right side of my car. so i undid bolt realigned and it dropped down again. I happy that both people had zero damage, and i got off with nothing cause i no it my fault still even though lady in front was the real contributor (law sucks some times and is so wrong)

However point im getting at is my big 3 wiring had a chassis ground around where the 1st layer of metal of front end was near windshield wiper liquid. And it looked fine. but for some reason now i have no idea why but it seems like my stereo has a bit of noise now introduced into the system.

any idea what maybe might be affected by the accident. should i just go throught and retighten all connection?

do u guys have to clean off your connectors ever from oxidation or bare wire or the ground spot?

Mike-

The first rcas i used were the blue stinger ones and after a month or so it started giving me a protection light so I switched to kicker ones and everything has been awesome since