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Aug 14th, 2006 at 9:24 pm by Susie
Okay, here’s the deal. My stereo receiver is shot to hell and someone has one they want to give me - but it has RCA outputs, and my speakers are the kind where you use bare wire. Any easy way to adapt them to RCA?
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jeez susie - can the stereo, rip your cds (then sell them) and get some decent computer speakers. it will free up tons of space too.
I run my DVD and VCR through the receiver.
take a dual RCA cable (typically 1 white and 1 red on each end) and cut the RCA connectors off of one end. peel off some of the insulation and voila! bare wires.
to avoid phase cancellation red RCA should connect to the “+” post on the speaker. there is nothing magical about the colors, you just need to be consistent. usually one of the conductors on the cable will have a white stripe or a small ridge running the length of the cable to indicate which side is which. If not… just mark the red connector side (before you cut it off) with white paint or tape. if, god forbid, you cross the wires on one side, the speakers are out of phase and you will notice severe drop in output at low frequency (frequency determined by how far apart the out of phase speakers. If it sounds weak, lacking low end then flip the connections on 1 speaker and problem solved.
a 3m stereo rca-rca should be about $6 at radio shack or ace hardware, you do not need fancy monster cable or anything,,, the cheaper the better. if you already have some rca cables for the cause you can strip the ends as described above and splice on extra 18 ga or 24 ga lamp cord (Smaller numbers are heavier wire, heavier than 18 ga is more expensive for no appreciable benefit, lighter than 22 or 24 you risk signal loss on long runs)
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I favor the first fair commenter. I use i-tunes myself, but you could always use a knife and some electrical tape and splice the stereo speakers to the RCA leads.
You want solderless RCA plugs like these from radio shack:
http://tinyurl.com/l5wre
just make sure you mind the polarity - the outside prong on the RCA plug is positive and the inside is negative.
You want solderless RCA plugs like these from radio shack:
http://tinyurl.com/l5wre
just make sure you mind the polarity - the outside prong on the RCA plug is positive and the inside is negative
I dunno.