How did white and red come to mean left and right on audio equipment?

[bbernardini]

Hmm?

[no name no slogan]

1. right == red -- they start with the same letter?

That's what I always figured. Of course you can do them any way you want, just as long as you remember where the connections go.

[Rick Myers]

2. Are you a 32nd level MASON???

Only then, will you know the answer...

:shrug:

[MindPilot]

3. Durn good question

I'll ask one of the audio engineers I work with.

[XNASA]

4. Dunno. Red was a bad choice though.....

Because red is also one of the colors for component video, the other two being green and blue.

It should have been White and Black.

Next time, ask me an easier question like......why are the two wires on a telephone called "Tip & Ring".?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Here's your answer...

http://www.accesscomms.com.au/tipring.htm

[XNASA]

8. Thanks but......

I meant that I already knew why. I'm an audio engineer by trade.

Thanks again.

[XNASA]

7. You should really be asking RCA.........

They invented those kinds of plugs.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Maybe it had to do with gauges?

Where the red (danger zone on many gauges) is on the right?

[Wilber_Stool]

9. Easy

red is for right,
white is for weft.
What could be simperwer.