How do I connect my speaker wires to the TV?
Are you sure that your TV has speaker-level outputs? (Many do not).What is common on most TVs is a pair “Line Out” or “Audio Out” jacks. These, however, are line level outputs and must be amplified to go to speakers — (i.e., you would hook the Audio Outs to an amplifier or a receiver, then hook the speakers to that).Without knowing the exact make and model of your TV, that’s as specific as I can be.
How do I connect speaker wire to an optical output?
Crim Liar is on the right track here. What you imagine, doesn't exist. Even if you buy an optical to stereo RCA/phono converter then you still have two major problems to overcome. The first is power. There's just not enough juice from the red and white RCA connectors of any device to drive some speakers. That's what the amp is for. The second problem is volume control. The signal level from the Optical out is fixed to maximum. It doesn't alter when you change the TV volume. This is another reason why you need an amplifier. It gives you volume control. The long and short of it is this; you're not going to be able to buy any sort of adapter that'll let you use the speakers directly with the TV. You're going to have to spend a bit of money. You need some kind of amplifier, whether it's a receiver or built in to a soundbar.. The low cost easy answer is a secondhand AV receiver from Craigslist or Ebay. You don't need anything fancy. So long as it has an optical input and decoded Dolby Digital and DTS then you should be fine. Make sure it has a working remote though. Budget up to $50 and you should get a reasonable choice. Here's a Sony receiver for $30 that's along the right lines http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ele... Here's a Harmon Kardon for $40. This is a step up in performance, quality and design. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ele... Buy an optical cable for a couple of bucks from Monoprice. Hook up your speakers, and that's you in business. It'll sound good for movies, TV, music and games.
How to test speaker wire connection?
I have a pair of speakers on my back porch which are connected to my home theater receiver in my living room. The speaker wire runs through the attic and comes out of the wall behind my entertainment center. Normally, I turn on the "B" set of speakers on the receiver when I want music on the porch. This has stopped working. I've verified the connection is good at both the receiver and the outside speakers, but I still get no sound. I don't think both speakers would go bad at the same time, but I don't have any other speakers available to test with. I'm thinking the easiest way to test the wire is to use a multimeter to measure the resistance between the two ends, but if that checks out OK, what should my next steps be?
How do I connect a speaker with 2 wires (+ & -) to a headphone jack with 3 wires?
A 3-wire jack is probably intended for stereo headphones (left & right). (also a "jack" is a female (or socket) connector. A "plug" is the male counterpart that would normally allow headphones or a speaker to be plugged into an audio source with an output jack. The following description assumes that you are connecting the speaker to a plug, not a jack.) The contacts on the 3-wire plug are often called "Tip" (the pointy end), "Tip 2" (a short cylinder immediately next to the Tip) and "Ring" (a longer cylinder at the opposite end of the connector from the Tip). The Ring is usually the common terminal; the "-" wire from your speaker would connect to the Ring. Tip and Tip 2 are the "+" left and "+" right terminals. If your source is monaural, then connect the "+" wire from the speaker to the Tip and you are done. If your source is stereo and you connect the "+" wire from the speaker to either Tip or Tip 2 terminals of the plug, then the speaker will give you either the left or right channel of the source. If you want both stereo channels, then you would need a second speaker connected between the Tip 2 and Ring terminals or you could connect an 8 ohm (for example) resistor to the Tip and an 8 ohm resistor to Tip 2, then connect the other ends of the resistors together and connect the "+" wire of the single speaker to the common point of the two resistors to get both channels from the single speaker.Note: Headphone outputs are typically low power and will not drive a large (> 4") speaker very well.
How do I convert red and black speaker wire to a 3.5mm audio jack?
You probably don't want to do that, at all. There is most likely a better way to get an audio signal from point A to point B.Most 3.5 mm jacks that you encounter are stereo jacks--stereo speakers, stereo headphones, etc.Stereo 3.5 mm jacks have three conductors; a tip, a band in the middle called the "ring", and the base of the jack called the "sleeve". You may see these referred to as,"Tip, Ring, Sleeve" jacks or sometimes just "TRS" jacks.In almost all stereo applications, the sleeve is the ground or "common", the tip is left, and the ring is right. To get the left signal, you take one lead from the ground and one from the tip. To get the right signal, you take one lead from the ground and one from the ring. As a rule the black wire denotes negative and should attach to the sleeve (ground/common).Whether hooking "red and black speaker wire to a 3.5 mm jack" will work for you depends on what you are trying to do. 3.5 mm jacks are rarely used for speaker-level connections. They are usually used for low level signals such as microphone inputs, line inputs, and headphones. If you are trying to drive a pair of bookshelf speakers from a headphone jack, you probably won't have much luck because speakers require a much higher signal level than headphones. You would most likely need to insert an amplifier between the 3.5 mm output and the speakers.If you are trying to go the other way and hook the speaker output of some device to the 3.5 mm input of another device, you are headed for heartbreak. Since most 3.5 mm jacks used as inputs are looking for a very, very low level microphone signal, the speaker output will be way too loud and the signal will be hopelessly distorted and the microphone input will be irreparably damaged (probably). If the 3.5 mm jack is on a cell phone, you've likely got a four conductor jack: A tip, two rings and a sleeve. On Apple devices, the tip is left, the ring next to it is right, the next ring is ground, and the sleeve is reserved for a microphone.a picture of various 3.5 mm schemes found in nature can be seen, here:
Connectors for speaker wires to Sony Home Theatre?
Generally for a Sony receiver, and many receivers in fact, you can just twist the connector in the back out, plug in the bare wire, and twist it back in to make the connection. This will work just find to hook up your speakers and if you don't move your speakers around alot (most people don't). The other option is to use banana plugs. These will work only if your receiver has a round jack in the end where the banana plug can go in. I have included a link for an example banana plug below. P.S. Remember match the color of the wires to the polarity of the connection (i.e. Red to Red, Black to Black).
Why does my speaker wire melt?
Distortion and corrosion won't cause the wire to melt. Wow, where did you learn your stuff? What size awg is the wire from the amp to the subs? It's probably too small for the wattage by means of size or length of wire. This should help: http://www.the12volt.com/info/recwirsz.a... Good luck!
How do I connect speakers that use old fashioned speaker wire to a new tv?
I came upon some Bose stereo speakers and subwoofer circa ten years ago. You don't plug them in, they just have holes for speaker wire to be connected into. What is the cheapest way I can use them with a new tv that has no speaker wire clips, (only plugs)
Can you link speaker wires to aux leads?
If I understand your question, you are asking:‘what will happen if i conmect speaker wires to an auxillary (3.5mm or 1/8″ jack)’well, there are two senarios.situation #1:you have aux cable coming from your audio device (phone, computer, etc) and you cut/splice it to a set of speaker wires and connect it to a speaker. this is essentially headphones. Your phone puts out low voltage, and your speaker will not be very loud. But, it can be done. Personally i use this method for testing that i have wires things correctly when messing with speakers.if you attach a speaker to a 3.5mm jack and then plug that 3.5mm jack into an amplifier input, you have created a microphone. Speak into the speaker-turned microphone and listen to the amplified signal from your amp. This method can be used to amplify a bass drum.option 2:you have amplified speaker wires coming from an amp (stereo) and you attach a 3.5mm or 1/8″ audio jack to the end. what happens if you plug that jack into stuff? Your amplifier puts out much more voltage than your phone, so it will behave exactly like a very loud input. Connect your amplified 3.5mm jack into another amplifier and you will have made a pre-amp. this is how phonographs work, they usually have a pre-amp that magnifies the signal first.if you plug this amplified 3.5mm cable into your phone, it might cause harm to the phone, but that is outside my area of expertise.
Is there a way to determine which wires (4 pair speaker wire) are connected to the positive/negative terminals of the in-ceiling speakers, they are not labeled and since there are 8 wires the standard red/black color coding is not enough?
The easiest way is visual inspection. That is pull it out and look at the color used to connect to which terminal.Electronically, it’s simply going to look like an inductor, and there’s no earth ground in these.You could look at the speaker and apply a bias voltage to see if it pushes the speaker cone out, or pulls it in. A positive bias across the + to - of the speaker inputs will push the cone outwards, and that’s what you would want.And finally, you could try a polarity test, but you need something that can do it. It’s basically doing the above to check the cone movement, but by using having a device listen to the acoustics.All this said, if you trust that they were installed correctly, the red should be + and black should be - by industry standard.