

If you have the leads correct to the speaker the speaker will move towards the front of the speaker cabinet and not back into the cabinet and then you have the speaker connected correctly as to positive and negative leads from the amp when you hook it all up. The banana type connections are not the same as in some old equipment where both wires were on one connection of a plastic type base where you screw in the wires and both wires were on one connection, but still about the same except the connections shown there are separated - as long as you know, one is colored red (usually for postive) and one is colored black on the connection somewhere for negative lead - but to make sure the speaker is moving out making sure you found the positive and negative connection - you take a battery like a 9 volt and click the speaker (won't hurt it unless you keep it on the speaker) to find out whether the speaker moves forwards or backwards in the way you think it should be hooked up. Usually such places sell ham radios, other type equipment like that and not a usually thought of hardware store, but sell antennas for TV, shortwave radios, other connections and wire for hooking up many, many things and either you can make your own connection with a soldering gun or your own microphone cables, or even guitar cables with wire and ends bought where you make your own connections for whatever in that field of industry, and certainly not probably a wal-mart or that type of hardware store that sells, hot- water heaters, wrenches, hammers or equipment like that. The only thing to do is look up connections for speaker connections and see what it is that is sold - like at an electrical hardware store in the area that deals in such equipment. Things change so in the end some creativity may have to be had. As to an adaptor from a 1/4" balanced connection or XLR connection to a banana plug in type plug-in may not be possible anymore. You may find an adaptor and you may not any more but you can always attach the wire (either by soldering it to a 1/4" balanced lead or unbalanced plug or buy a plug that can be used to make the connection. It all is an electrical circuit like inside of the stereo amp or mono amp where all of that is designed to boost the signal up so sound is heard by the mechanical actions of the speaker (or transducer) which is similar to a microphone (transducer) that changes the electrical sound into a mechanical action that makes - sound (noise-call whatever you want to - music). If smaller gauge wire is used, it better be way shorter and actually 16 gauge wire to be sure may be better.

If running longer length speaker wire to deliver all the signal to the speakers then even up to 12 gauge wlre can be used but for about up to 50 feet of wire - 16 guage is big enough. Because amps give off sort of AC voltage and not are DC voltage like a phone-connection wire ran in the house up from the basement and smaller in gauge.
#Radio shack banana plug professional
On older usually professional equipment banana plugs used to be used where you screw the wire into the ends of the banana plug and tighten up the usually tinned wire (so it does not unravel) on the post where the screw is tightened by a screwdriver and tightens the wire up so it does not come lose on the connector. usually bare wire maybe tinned (soldered ends) can be used and again on the speaker (if a stereo speaker) where you run the speaker wire (usually at least 16 gauge instead of 18 gauge like a regular type electrical cord without the ends on it).

Usually a type of prong connector is used unless the stereo amp or equipment provides another type of connection. There are different ways to hook up speakers from a say - stereo amp.
