So I want to connect my speakers to my sub...

[Dav0s]

I have 2 hifi speakers

They have speaker cable coming out the back... It is copper wire, one black, one red, u know the stuff.

I need to connect this speaker wire, to one of these RCA socket thingies on the back of my sub thingy.

Someone link me to the thingy i need to buy to make this work. www.cableuniverse.co.uk is a good site for me.

Also please know that I do NOT have a soldering iron, and my electricity knowledge is next to none, so any crimps/tools i need or need to buy, must also be stated lol.

I've seen THIS and also THIS

are any of those what I need?

any advice welcome

 

[Rastalovich]

Basically yeah.

U got stripped pairs of wires coming from the speakers, and 2 new phono plugs to buy so u can plug them in u`r wOOf.

Gold or just metal is down to u, afaic. Purists will give u a really nice waffle on why gold is better. On the physics side of things, unless u`r wire is gold there isn`t alot of point, especially if u`r sockets aren`t gold and the innards of the woofer aren`t gold.

Center of the phono being the signals and outer being the gnd.

Solder it up and away u go, cheap`n easy. Seeing as u don`t have one tho... either do the ghetto thing of twisting the wires and taping them - shoddily! Or, take u`r thingies to maplins or similar and ask them - cept they`ll charge donkeys for it. ....... be nice if there was a phono plug with a pair of spring loaded bare wire clip things u see on some speakers.

EDIT: Having said that m8y, I would have thought an investment of a small pen like soldering iron and a coil of solder would be a handy thing for u to have. Bet u can find em for about a tenner.

 

[Ham]

Buy a soldering iron. Theyre cheaper than DVD-RWs.

 

[Dav0s]

do the ghetto thing of twisting the wires and taping them

sounds fantastic, now someone tell me what i need to buy!!!

 

[Ham]

Electrical tape and the right plugs for the job.

 

[Dav0s]

yeah this whole thread is me asking what are the "right plugs for the job"

 

[Rastalovich]

Phono plugs - ala u`r links.

Wire strippers - teeth >.< (using the gap between the bottom of u`r 2 front top ones)

Tape - preferably insulation type (cos it goes unsticky slower than regular tape)

Take the wire from u`r speaker like the way u have pictured. Strip the two wires inside so u have enough copper to play with (.5 inch or so) - the phono plugs will have 2 holes in the end u`r gonna stick u`r wire to. Post the copper wire through the holes and twist em till they`re tight. Then put tape around them. Be sure they contact well with the plug, but also put the tape on well enough so they don`t have a chance of touching each other - but obviously not too much so as u can`t screw on the phono plug housing afterwards.

If u`r not sure with of the pairs goes with which part of the phono plug - simply plug it into the wOOf without the housing on, and touch u`r wires to the contacts - if it sounds, then u`r pretty much ok

Repeat with the other speaker.

I cannot believe I`ve just told u this >.<

 

[Dav0s]

hehe i pretty much knew all that, what i didnt realise was that apparently the links i gave are of the same product, so i seem to ahve answered my own question.

now i just need to know which part of wire goes on which part of plug...

 

[Rastalovich]

Just plug the naked phono in and touch the wires to it and see.

 

[FarFarAway]

Just plug the naked phono in and touch the wires to it and see.

That's the method I used to use when testing audio systems...my mate used to kill me (he owned the car audio shop and used to bring out the signal tester), but it works

 

[Dav0s]

right, ill get purchasing then, thanks for advice guys, repped accordingly