Stereo Connection Help Needed

erika1209

erika1209

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Hi I need help with hooking up a stero system. I have the reciever, a cd player, and a tape player. I need to know where each of the audio connections go. The Tape and CD player have two black slots one says right the other says left which plug does the red one go in and which one does the red one go in?

The Tape Deck looks like this

IN (REC) OUT (PLAY)
O O Left
O O Right


And on the reciever it's like this:

TAPE 2
TAPE 1 VIDEO SOUND
rec play rec play
O O O O left
O O O O right



Also I bought speaker wire and both sides look the same which is red and which is black? One of the sides of the speaker wire has a white line on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
 
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Actually both sides of the speaker terminals are NOT the same - one is a positive and one is a negative. If you don't hook the negative and positive on the receiver with the corresponding negative and positive on the speaker, your speaker will be out of phase. This compromises the sound in a number of ways. Treat 'em like jumper cables.
Your call on how you want to hook them up - I usually run the marked wire (white stripe on yours) as the positive at both ends just so I can keep track.
 
[quote name='cruster']Actually both sides of the speaker terminals are NOT the same - one is a positive and one is a negative. If you don't hook the negative and positive on the receiver with the corresponding negative and positive on the speaker, your speaker will be out of phase. This compromises the sound in a number of ways. Treat 'em like jumper cables.
Your call on how you want to hook them up - I usually run the marked wire (white stripe on yours) as the positive at both ends just so I can keep track.[/quote]

well yeah, I meant there is no difference in the two sides of the speaker wire itself.
 
[quote name='scsg75'][quote name='cruster']Actually both sides of the speaker terminals are NOT the same - one is a positive and one is a negative. If you don't hook the negative and positive on the receiver with the corresponding negative and positive on the speaker, your speaker will be out of phase. This compromises the sound in a number of ways. Treat 'em like jumper cables.
Your call on how you want to hook them up - I usually run the marked wire (white stripe on yours) as the positive at both ends just so I can keep track.[/quote]

well yeah, I meant there is no difference in the two sides of the speaker wire itself.[/quote]

Sorry, got it - you are right there.
 
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