Steaming Wizard

Got a surround sound stereo, but alas no cables for the rear surround speakers.

The connections in the back of the stereo are phono points, while the back of the speakers are the clips to take bare wire.

Bought some phono leads, cut the plugs from one end, went to strip the wire, and found that they are twin core, can anyone tell me which core (inner or outer, or both?) do I connect into the speaker?

Mightily confused!

darlodge

Evening gramps

Welcome to the board.

Darren

[Edited by darlodge - 10/15/2003 1:48:46 PM]

davegtt

ahhh, u got shielded cable have we. u need to use both, the inner and the outter, probably cause u got decent quality cable, if u bought some cheap ****e like I probably would then u would just have a 2pair wire

Steaming Wizard

Thanks for that, I was starting to worry I'd blow the system up!

Big help!

ajm

you should buy some proper speaker cable and solder some phono plugs onto it cos standard phono wire is not designed to carry the kind of power that drives speakers - it is usually for carrying low voltage input signal from components to the amp.

davegtt

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you should buy some proper speaker cable and solder some phono plugs onto it cos standard phono wire is not designed to carry the kind of power that drives speakers - it is usually for carrying low voltage input signal from components to the amp.
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such as TV signal etc.

Graz

You wouldn't get a surround amp with phono connections for the speakers, they should come out on posts or clips.

Are you sure your system isn't designed to run active rear speakers (i.e. the amplification is internal to the speakers) as these may have a phono type connection. I think you will find no matter how you connect it up you won't get much sound out of the rear speakers.

I never heard of an amp with amplified speaker outputs on phono connectors. Okay I might be wrong but that is my opinion.

What make and model is it?

TopBanana

What Graz said. Don't try to plug them into your speakers

davegtt

nah ya worng, u can get phono outputs for surround sound. Ive done it on a stereo at my dads house and he dont have a problem Ive also got surround sound on my DVD player which PHONO comes out and goes into PHONO on a sperate amp and come out of the amp PHONO into the speakers which granted are split into stripped back wire for the speakers

messiah

I use Digital co-axial from DVD, optical toslink from PS2 and phono leads from sky.

Cables are so overlooked by most people - why spend a fortune on equipment when connect then together with cheap tat?

Steaming Wizard

Thanks to everyone for the replies....

Graz,

I'll get back to you tonight, once I get home, and let you know the what model of Kenwood it is.