What Cables Do I Need?

[29chrispy]

Yup -- that speaker wire between the two monitors is not the same thing as the speaker wire output from your amplifier. The one that goes from left monitor to right goes from a high-impedance output to a high-impedance input -- it carries both DC power and a line-level signal, the latter superimposed on the former. This is quite a non-standard use of a bare wire connection, but since it's used only between two units of the same pair, that doesn't matter. However, it can be misleading; it could make it appear that speaker wire is all you need to connect to the other input. That's not so.

The amp's speaker-wire output is low-impedance, meaning it's supposed to go into an eight-ohm (or four or sixteen, something on that order) speaker. Connecting this directly to a high-impedance input, one that expects a line-level (IOW, much lower level) signal, such as the RCA connectors on your monitor pair, will not work. You have to match the impedance of the input to that of the output, and I'd say that's not worth the bother.

In your place I'd just go the mixer route, use the monitors' built-in amplification, and leave the other amp out of the equation entirely unless you want to run it into the mixer too (through an impedance-matching transformer or something of that sort).

The speaker wire is suitable for the amplifier. i used the speaker wire that connects to the right speaker and plugged it into the R output on the amp and i got sound.

[Meffy]

Sounds as if the amp is mostly or entirely in the left speaker. Doesn't invalidate the rest of what I said.

If you don't believe what we've all told you, try it and see. Be aware there's a chance that you will fry some gear, though. Long as you don't mind "letting the magic smoke out," as we electronics engineers and technicians say, you're golden. For the price of a new pair of monitors you could learn a valuable lesson. :-}

Or you could take the advice of those of us who know this kind of thing, save yourself some agony and money, and do it the right way.

Insisting that you can splice string to steel cable will never make it work, no matter how much you'd like it to.

[Mushy Mushy]

You CANNOT go from speaker wire to RCA.

[Meffy]

Let me try one last time. There's nothing (except concern for safety and a desire not to burn up your gear) stopping you from taking a power cord, stripping the end opposite the mains plug, and soldering the bare wires to a standard coaxial power connector like those on "wall wart" power supplies. If you plug that into a device that takes a 9-volt AC input (most are DC, but not all; connecting it to a DC input will have much the same result anyway) you will see plenty of that magic smoke I mentioned, and maybe worse.

You MUST match source and destination, output and input. It's not optional, and wishing won't make it so.

[29chrispy]

Sounds as if the amp is mostly or entirely in the left speaker. Doesn't invalidate the rest of what I said.

If you don't believe what we've all told you, try it and see. Be aware there's a chance that you will fry some gear, though. Long as you don't mind "letting the magic smoke out," as we electronics engineers and technicians say, you're golden. For the price of a new pair of monitors you could learn a valuable lesson. :-}

Or you could take the advice of those of us who know this kind of thing, save yourself some agony and money, and do it the right way.

Insisting that you can splice string to steel cable will never make it work, no matter how much you'd like it to.

Thank you so much for helping. i realised how stubborn ive been. I need to go now but thanks for all your help and putting up with me same goes to mushy mushy

[Meffy]

No problem. It's natural to want to do things cheaply and easily, but I guarantee that in this instance it won't work. It's just how these things work. You have to do it right or things will at least sound awful, or in the worst case go kablooey and require opening all the windows for a few hours.

The important thing is that you didn't try, and thus risk blowing something out. Nobody loses when you ask questions. If you do find a decent yet inexpensive mixer, post the details and we'll try to help you hook everything together. It's a worthwhile thing to want to do.

[Mushy Mushy]

Sounds as if the amp is mostly or entirely in the left speaker. Doesn't invalidate the rest of what I said.

If you don't believe what we've all told you, try it and see. Be aware there's a chance that you will fry some gear, though. Long as you don't mind "letting the magic smoke out," as we electronics engineers and technicians say, you're golden. For the price of a new pair of monitors you could learn a valuable lesson. :-}

Or you could take the advice of those of us who know this kind of thing, save yourself some agony and money, and do it the right way.

Insisting that you can splice string to steel cable will never make it work, no matter how much you'd like it to.

Thank you so much for helping. i realised how stubborn ive been. I need to go now but thanks for all your help and putting up with me same goes to mushy mushy