Bose uses RCA connectors on the bass box side to connect the sat speakers to the bass box. You can get these wires cheap on ebay. The good thing about these is their gauge and their factory solder and plastic encasement process. I would be nervous about making my own cables using heavy gauge. I don't think their is enough clearance inside the RCA jack for my present day soldering skills. When i was a teen, I could desolder and resolder memory chips. If you want a stereo hook-up, you'll need two sets of RCA cables. Now, connect your amplifiers to their power source, check your wiring; then turn it on. I have a preamp subwoofer with regular speaker cables input but my stereo only have a RCA out put, can i covert RCA cables to a regular. Unless you have really old gear, a Mac that was sold within the last few years should be on the list. Additionally, you'll need a USB drive with 4GB of free space. Superdrive driver for windows. Today, I have trouble soldering close 8 guage wire. I don't think there is enough clearance inside the RCA jack for my present day soldering skills. When i was a teen, I could desolder and resolder memory chips. Today, I have trouble soldering close 8 guage wire. I had to do some repair work on some surface mount chips at my last employer, and all I had was a small temp controlled iron. I did ok, but wouldn't want to make a habit of it. Jc, are you just needing some long interconnects? If so, that wouldn't be too hard to make. You just want to use the in-wall wiring since it is already there? RCA plugs and jacks were never meant for high-level (amp to speaker) signals. RCAs' break the ground before the hot lead, always a bad idea. Please look at other connectors before going this route. Parts Express has a good selection. In case I missed something, you can't use generic 'RCA cable' for speaker leads, the capcitence of the shielded wire is not something amps like on the high side and the wire gage is way too small. I wish we could outlaw RCA connectors and move to something a little more advanced, but there are millions (billions?) of devices out there that still use them. Any standard RCA connector would be fine. To make your life easier, only use a few strands for the actual connection. Peel the rest back and trim them off. If the insulation on your cables are too big to fit into the connector, then strip away a long section, trim down the conductors and then put heatshrink around each leg. 2-3' should be more then enough to make it easy. If you do end up pulling wire, I would pull some 2 conductor with a shield. This way you can use it for both balanced and unbalanced connections. If you use it for unbalanced, then you could use the second conductor for the ground return and then only connect the shield to the upstream component. This shunts the noise currents away from the downstream components. For a balanced connection, you just use the shield for the ground and the two conductors carry the two legs of your balanced line. I've seen some people use 3 conductors and a shield for balanced lines (shield only connected upstream), but I'm not sure if there's any real benefit to it. If you're certain you'll only ever use unbalanced, then I would probably pull some RG-6. They've got these cool little connectors that convert from your standard coax jack to RCA too, which means you could use the very easy to install crimp on connectors. Speaker Wire To Rca PlugThough if you don't have the crimp tool, then just separate the shield and conductor and solder it to a normal RCA jack (the crimp tool is way too expensive for a one off job). Convert Speaker Wire To Rca JackI know this part is complex to some so I'll elaborate as much as possible. Get one side of the wire, as in either the green and copper side or red and copper side. Oh, I'd prefer if you cut off the wires from the speakers. Get your headphone wires and put one on positive and one on negative. It doesn't matter which goes one which. Plug it in to your mp3 player and touch the wires on the speaker till' you get a sound. Hold them there and hot glue them down. The Hot Glue is temp. How To Attach Speaker Wire To Rca PlugThis part may take hours, so relax and understand that you weren't the only one having problems connecting the speakers Contact me if you are having problems.
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