[Meotchh]

NO DUMBASS. You add a potential of failure by adding a crimp in the middle of the wire. That is completely different than adding a connecter to slide onto a speaker terminal. Yet that is also a weak link but not a potential to look all around pulling your hair out because a cheap butt connector, spliced to two LARGELY different gage wires, had a poor connection or came loose.

Now dumbass that did not SOLVE your noise.

Now it is "stereo installers" like you that create alot of work for the knowledgable few that properly install components without BANDAIDS through out the system. I love hearing people preach about how they have been "installing stereos since you were in mommies tummy". If you have been doing it wrong for 32 years then you will continue to hack for the next 32 if you do not learn to do it right!

YOU DO NOT connect a 14ga wire to an 8ga or 10 ga wire that is feeding electrons back to the battery or anywhere else. Electricity flows neg to pos DC 101. That means you do not feed a water hose with a straw as I pointed out above. Now I will get back to my relaxing time off. Yes with resposibilty comes benefits. PTO is great after completeing a successful project at work.