How to hook up speakers to amplifier

First on, last off. Connecting to your home stereo All home stereo systems include some form of additional input, usually labeled as an AUX or Auxiliary input and sometimes Tape input. If your keyboard offers no jack labeled as an output, you can use the headphone jack to connect to your stereo. This Y cord is readily available in musical instrument stores and online. Use a cable long enough to make the connection without requiring adapters or additional connectors. These items can weaken the signal and make noise.

Turn on the keyboard first, waiting until it has fully powered up before moving on. When fitting two wires into each of the speaker terminals in a four-speaker configuration, if the speaker wire fits completely through the terminal hole, it does not matter whether you go through the top of the bottom of the post. Attaching the speaker wire to the Connect:Amp: Use your thumb or finger to firmly push the spring-loaded speaker connector post inward to reveal the connection hole.

Insert the stripped end of the speaker wire into the hole, and then release. The stripped portion should be caught firmly in the connector post. Because the subwoofer is working mostly on the bass the low tones , it doesn't require as much directional pushing as speakers do. Since you'll have to run cables and wires between the subwoofer and other devices, you might want to keep it just a few feet from your screen.

To get started with the actual hook-up, you'll connect the subwoofer to the amplifier using the RCA cable. If you want a stereo hook-up, you'll need two sets of RCA cables.

Connect the subwoofer output to the amplifier input.

Amplifier/Speaker Hook-Up

In some ways, thick, high-end wire can present MORE of a problem than the conventional skinnier stuff. More on that later. For the purposes of discussion we will use the term "amp" short for amplifier to refer to any receiver, integrated amp or power amp. This sheet is intended for solid state, transistorized sets. We'll leave tubes out of this particular discussion.

How to Connect Your Digital Keyboard to External Speakers and Amps

Attempting to use an amplifier at an unstable load will damage the amp. Note that some high end car audio vendors intentionally underrate their amplifiers so that a 50x2 Watt amplifier 4 ohms really does produce x1 4 ohms. This is done so that car stereo systems using their equipment can enter car audio competitions in a lower Wattage category, giving them an edge over the competition. Meanwhile, many low end manufacturers overstate the power of their amplifiers.