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Speaker wires near AC wires

Due to a room opening between my speakers, I'm running the speaker wires in the floor joist space below and then up to the amp.

The space is clean from other wires except where the speaker wires come back up to the amp. At that point, there are a couple of AC wires about four inches away.

Can I shield the speaker wires somehow...aluminum foil, etc., or not to worry?
kennythekey

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almarg
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I agree with Mapman -- nothing to worry about. Four inches sounds like very reasonable separation, especially where the length of the parallelism is small. Also, the very low impedance levels of an amp/speaker interface, and the fact that there is no subsequent amplification further downstream, both minimize sensitivity to emi (electromagnetic interference).

Regards,
-- Al
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