Help with speaker setup

[Kernel Kraken]

I recently bought a Liquid Spark amplifier and a Micca MB42-c speaker, and I am not sure how to connect them up. The Spark has 4 input/output cables (2 aux for input, 2 aux for a preamp output, which i am using to go out to the speaker). I cannot figure out how to wire up the Aux inputs with the 5- way connectors on the speaker. Ill try to link a picture:

The spark has 2 Aux outputs on the left, white and red, that I need to connect to the black and red inputs of the speaker. I also need to connect my PC audio to the white and red inputs of the Amp, from only one aux output.

I think I need a way to get aux to speaker wire, to wrap around the pegs on the speaker. I just don't know where I can find it. I also dont k ow where i can find an Aux splitter to plug my PC into the Amp. I am actually stressed out from this as I usually dont spend over $10 on purchases 

Edited July 17, 2019 by Kernel Kraken

[qzgy]

Amazon is a good place to look for stuff. 

White and red is I think for left and right channels of audio. I wouldn't be surprised if you can find something on Amazon that adapts those connectors to a standard 3.5 mm jack, cause that's what you need.

Alsp you sure you don't need an Amp for the speaker? Cause if it's a preamp output I'd guess you then need an Amp in between preamp and speaker.

 

 

Edit - 3.5mm cable to rca (your ports on the Amp I think) - SHD 3.5mm Aux to 2RCA Y Splitter Stereo Audio Cable Male Type OFC Conductor High Flexible PVC Jacket Dual Shielding Gold Plated High End Metal Shell-Black 3Feet/1m https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017XNCK6I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Ne9lDb6P1E4VM

Edited July 18, 2019 by qzgy

[Kernel Kraken]

17 hours ago, qzgy said:

Amazon is a good place to look for stuff. 

White and red is I think for left and right channels of audio. I wouldn't be surprised if you can find something on Amazon that adapts those connectors to a standard 3.5 mm jack, cause that's what you need.

Alsp you sure you don't need an Amp for the speaker? Cause if it's a preamp output I'd guess you then need an Amp in between preamp and speaker.

 

 

Edit - 3.5mm cable to rca (your ports on the Amp I think) - SHD 3.5mm Aux to 2RCA Y Splitter Stereo Audio Cable Male Type OFC Conductor High Flexible PVC Jacket Dual Shielding Gold Plated High End Metal Shell-Black 3Feet/1m https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017XNCK6I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Ne9lDb6P1E4VM

Sweet, thanks. I was going to order some RCA cables for it, just didnt know what so look for.

[Nuke]

those look like screw terminals on the speaker. if its an unpowered speaker, i think what i would do is find an old rca cable, clip off one end, split off one of the channels, strip and separate the conductors and attach to the screw terminals with the other end going to the output on the amp. each wire is either going to be 2 insulated wires or one insulated and a bare wire. the bare wire is usually ground, or if theres insulation usually the black. when in doubt use the multimeter. if you want to make it neat use some heat shrink to cover the bare wire and to terminate the outer insulation. or you can go to radio shack and get some rca terminations (say to terminate one end of some speaker wire), which usually come in screw, crimp, and solder varieties (i prefer the solder ones but i have a really good iron and the skills to make it work, screw terminals usually require the least investment in tools).

i have a similar amplifier but it uses spring terminals instead of rca jacks and i was just able to use speaker wire. each jack contains signal and ground with the peg being the signal and the crown being ground, its one jack per channel. ive always preferred spring or screw terminals myself. it keeps you from accidentally sending a highly amplified signal into a device output and frying the electronics. on the input side i just used one of the 3.5mm jack to rca cable that i had in my big ol box of cables. 

Edited July 18, 2019 by Nuke

[Gargamel]

On 7/18/2019 at 7:02 PM, Nuke said:

go to radio shack

What is this radio shack you speak of?     

They've been closed for a while.   I can't think of a suitable replacement in my area, short of the 'net. 

[Nuke]

1 hour ago, Gargamel said:

What is this radio shack you speak of?     

They've been closed for a while.   I can't think of a suitable replacement in my area, short of the 'net. 

err i forgot. 

[Kernel Kraken]

14 hours ago, Gargamel said:

What is this radio shack you speak of?     

They've been closed for a while.   I can't think of a suitable replacement in my area, short of the 'net. 

Radioshack was going to be my first choice to buy my Aux- 2RCA converter and 2 RCA cables until I remembered 

On 7/18/2019 at 5:02 PM, Nuke said:

big ol box of cables. 

I had to throw out my excess cable box. I could have probably build a cold fusion reactor and some guitar pedals with all the stuff that was in there. It's slowly being rebuilt.

[Nuke]

5 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:

Radioshack was going to be my first choice to buy my Aux- 2RCA converter and 2 RCA cables until I remembered 

I had to throw out my excess cable box. I could have probably build a cold fusion reactor and some guitar pedals with all the stuff that was in there. It's slowly being rebuilt.

i built a crunch pedal. its not really a pedal because why would you ever turn it off? so i just didnt put a stomp switch on it.

[Kernel Kraken]

8 hours ago, Nuke said:

i built a crunch pedal. its not really a pedal because why would you ever turn it off? so i just didnt put a stomp switch on it.

If you have a really fast tech guy just kick him and he'll unplug from the non- stomp box and straight into your amp. A bit of lag but still works.

[Nuke]

5 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:

If you have a really fast tech guy just kick him and he'll unplug from the non- stomp box and straight into your amp. A bit of lag but still works.

i built mine based on the "captain crunch" design out of junk i had laying around. it had the added bonus of being vague about things like potentiometer type and component values. the op amps i used most definitely were not audio rated. it wanted an lm833, which is 2 audio opamps in one package. i didnt have one of those but i had a lot of opa705s, so i just used 2 of those instead. the recipe is a simple amplify, clip, and amplify again arrangement. it probably doesn't sound as good but seeing as i like the raw kvlt sound it worked for me.  it worked well enough to play some thrash metal riffs on my guitar. now if i could only find time to practice.

17 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:

I had to throw out my excess cable box. I could have probably build a cold fusion reactor and some guitar pedals with all the stuff that was in there. It's slowly being rebuilt.

that sucks, id be lost without my box o' cables. though to be fair a lot of things probably can go. like all the serial/parallel cables, old phone cords, vga cables, anything that doesn't work, etc. 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2019 by Nuke