Linking vintage sanyo speakers to vintage stereo receiver

[Andee bee]

Morning,

I was hoping someone on here might be able to help me figure out how to connect my old Sanyo SX 211 speakers to a Technics SA-200L stereo receiver? The speaker has a single male rca plug connection whilst the amp has standard bare wire speaker terminals.(see images attached) I’m a bit of a noob at this stuff so any help is very much appreciated!

Many thanks!

 

[roxoncontac]

Simply crimp, twist or solder rca ends onto speaker wire. Rca's are two wire connectors. You will need the female end.
Or you can simply cut off the male ends you currently have on those speakers and use the wire leads.

 

[Andee bee]

Simply crimp, twist or solder rca ends onto speaker wire. Rca's are two wire connectors. You will need the female end.
Or you can simply cut off the male ends you currently have on those speakers and use the wire leads.

Brilliant! Thanks for your help

 

[electronjohn]

Hard to tell from the pic, but are the wires on the speaker color coded? One side would have a red or black stripe or something and the other would be unmarked. If marked, connect the striped side to the + terminal on the receiver and the unmarked to the - terminal. Proper polarity is important. If the wires are unmarked (a possibility) then connect one speaker and connect the other in the way that produces the best bass. Speakers out of correct polarity can also cause some instruments or vocals to almost disappear...but it's an EZ thing to correct.

 

[coonmanx]

One issue that you might have with simply cutting that end off is phasing. Can you easily see which wire is which and tell them apart? Otherwise you might run into an issue with out of phase speakers.

 

[coonmanx]

The easiest thing would be to simply get a female RCA to speaker terminal adapter and be done with it.

 

[coonmanx]

Otherwise if those two wires look exactly the same then the only way that you would know which one is which would be to open up the back of the speaker, trace the wires back to the crossover, and then mark them.