Stereo Speakers Wire

I have a set of old stereo speakers - they have bare wires at the back (two for each speaker - one wire in each set has a white stripe on it).

I want to wire them to a single 3.5mm stereo jack plug which in turn will go into an amplifier - can anybody please tell me how best to do this?

You can't turn speakers into an amplifier. If they are amplified speakers, they will work. Old stereo speakers need a separate amplifier.

A stereo jack plug has 3 connectors called body ring and tip. Body is the one connected to the largest bit of metal and the two wires with white stripes connect to that. The other wire for the left hand speaker goes to the tip and for the right hand speaker to the ring.

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My mini stereo died, but I kept the speakers as they are quite nice (JVC). Is it possible to wire them to my G3 iMac? I really don't want to buy computer speakers, and it will be a bit before I can afford to replace my desktop stereo system.
Any help would be appreciated.
And how would you go about it?

I guess so.

2008-02-16 13:25:10 by pussycat_8

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I moved a while ago and finally getting around to hooking my stereo back up and I'm having trouble figuring it out.

There are 2 sets of speaker wires going into the bottom of the subwoofer. One positive & negative connection says "left" the other a positive and negative which says "right." The speaker wires are already hooked in there.

The problem is where do I hook them into the back of my stereo?

Here are my possible selections:

Rear Speakers (has 2 - one for right, one for left) - I hooked my small speakers into this. Is this correct?

Center Speaker - has only 1, doesn't say right or left, if I put the wires into this one, I would have to put the wires for both the left positive subwoofer connection and the right positive subwoofer connection into one connection. The same would go for the negative.

Front Speakers - You can plug 2 speakers into A and 2 into B.

Please tell me what to put where. I have 2 small speakers & a subwoofer.
My stereo system is an Onkyo and is about 15 years old. My subwoofer has no other way to connect to the stereo besides the cable. It is a part of a Cambridge Soundworks set.

Place the subwoofer connections in the corresponding left or right FRONT SPEAKER output, and the two small speakers can either both share the CENTER output or Share with the subwoofer, if you connect them to the REAR the sounds will be inconsistent and faint!

Good luck!

2007-08-15 16:19:25 by sharbysyd

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or will the old thin wire work better.

Is the lower resistance better for speaker wire

Will it hurt the sound quality

Should i use a different type of wire

Any wire will work, but that's not the best, its not designed for that purpose.

Speaker wire, like any other electrical component, has three parameters which determine its performance: resistance, capacitance, and inductance. If a perfect wire were possible it would have no resistance, no capacitance, and no inductance. The shorter a wire is, the closer it comes to being perfect as resistance increases with length in all conductors. Resistance has by far the largest effect on speaker wire performance. Capacitative and inductive characteristics of speaker wire are vanishingly small relative to the loudspeaker itself and are effectively independent of the frequency of a signal being passed through the wire, at least for audio frequencies.

The quality of construction is often chosen for aesthetic purposes and convenience. Stranded wire is more flexible than solid wire and hence easier to work with. For a wire that will be exposed, often in a home, (rather than run within walls, under floor coverings, or behind molding), appearance may be a benefit, a wholly subjective one, but is irrelevant for electrical characteristics. Better purification of oxidizing materials such as copper will result in more consistent conductive properties throughout the length of the wire. Better jacketing may be thicker or tougher, less likely to tangle and easier to pull through a group of other wires, or incorporate a number of shielding techniques.

Even with a poor wire, an audible degradation of sound may not exist. Many supposedly audible differences in speaker wire can be attributed to listener bias or the placebo effect. Listener bias is helped in no small part by the large number of wire manufacturers making claims about their products with little or no engineering or scientific basis. Many manufacturers catering to audiophiles (as well as those available in less expensive retail locations) make poetic, if unmeasurable, claims about this wire sounding open, dynamic, or smooth. To justify the claims, many rely on little understood electrical properties such as skin effect, characteristic impedance of the cable, or resonance. None have any measurable effect at audio frequencies, though each matters at radio frequencies) [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_wir e

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Make it a great day!

2007-09-12 14:47:55 by jasonsky@verizon.net

I am interested in buying some new 6X9's for the back of my car and some new 6's for the doors, and maybe one sub. I don't want a big bangin system, just something with a little more power and sounds good. Any ideas on what type of amp (2 channel, 4 channel), do I need a crossover, that kinda thing. Any suggestions??

A nice way to start that's easy on the budget but allows future expansion would be this:

Purchase a 4-channel amplifier, decent door speakers, and a single 4-ohm subwoofer and box.

Wire the amplifier so that two channels are used to run the new front speakers, and the rear channels are bridged to run the subwoofer.

Leave the rear speakers stock, and leave them hooked up to the head unit's rear speaker outputs.

Almost all 4-channel amps include built-in crossovers these days, so no separate crossover network is required. Pick an amp that gives you an option of high-pass or low-pass filtering.

I know it's natural to think of new 6x9's first, but they're by far the least important component. Most of your sound field will be created by the front speakers, whatever you do. The function of the rear speakers is to provide a "fill" effect (which stock speakers can do as well as after-market) and to provide bass (which will now be done by the subwoofer). In other words, you won't get much return on your investment if you replace them, and the money saved can be applied to better front speakers.

2007-03-14 14:29:44 by jrod n