Passive speakers with strange connections?

I have two speakers here, each with one of those medieval cables. They come straight out of the box, and my eBay seller somehow managed to get them to play music, so I'm not going to give up trying to connect them to my amplifier with RCA connectors 🙂

Thank you and subbo

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Shalidor
1 year ago

These are not “medium-aged” cables, but completely normal twin wires with loudspeaker plugs. This is as usual for speakers as the pawl connection on the headphones.

why I won’t give up trying to connect to my amplifier with cinch connectors

You can try that long. Cinch is preamplifier level, i.e. low-level signal. For passive speakers you need a high-level or Speaker signal, that is, amplifier level. Even if you can connect your speakers to the Cinch outputs with self-made adapters, nothing happens.

The loudspeakers are connected to the music system or the amplifier to the loudspeaker outputs. These are usually screw caps or screw terminals.

spelman
1 year ago

Either you buy or build an adapter, or you cut off the plug and build other plugs.

Your amplifier has Cinch sockets as speaker outputs? This is unusual, usually Cinch outputs are more intended for active boxes.

Franky12345678
1 year ago

In the Middle Ages there were neither cables, nor loudspeakers nor stereo systems.

The loudspeakers are a few decades old, where it was still common to connect passive boxes via these plugs to the stereo system.

Today, two clamps are common where bare strand comes in.

“Modernize” is therefore made fast:

  • Kneifen plug
  • Pull the two strands 5cm apart.
  • For each approx. 1cm far away the insulation so you have bare copper
MartinusDerNerd
1 year ago

Hello!

I don’t think that your “intensifier” has Cinch sockets as a power output.

In the case of plugging in and out, a contact could then occur between the two lines.

And that’s exactly what prevents this plug shape, this speaker.

What’s your amplifier? Maybe we can find a guide with the exact name.

And please take a sharp photo from the back so that we can see all the connections there well. You can then add the photo to your question afterwards.

Maybe it will help us.

Greeting

Martin

MartinusDerNerd
1 year ago
Reply to  avcgamer123

Not “plug”, if only the “books”. The plugs are always on the cable.

If you’re talking about this “intensifier.” “High-power” outputs would probably be clamping, or screw connections for the cable ends of the loudspeaker cables.

We need to know more about this device if we want to help you.

What about this photo?

ultrarunner
1 year ago

This is a DIN loudspeaker plug.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/speaker plug#speaker plug_nach_DIN_41529