How to Connect Speakers to an Amplifier or Receiver

In this video, which is Video #5 in this Six-Part series on How to Set Up Your Turntable, I'll show you how you can set up and connect your speakers to your amplifier or receiver.

The speakers you see in this video are the PSB Imagine Minis. And the integrated amplifier we will connect them to is the Marantz PM5004.

Additional videos in this six-part series are as follows:

-How to Set Up a Turntable Effectively (VIDEO 1)
-How to Balance a Tonearm, Align Cartridge (VIDEO 2)
-How to Change Turntable Needle, Install New Cartridge (VIDEO 3)
-How to Connect Turntable to Phono Preamp or Integrated Amplifier (VIDEO 4)
-Understanding How to Play Vinyl Records (VIDEO 6)

Thanks for watching!

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TRANSCRIPT:

Hey guys, it’s Michael from Devoted to Vinyl. And this is video number five in a six part video series aimed at helping you properly set up your turntable so you can finally begin buying and playing your vinyl records.

[INTRO]

Now in the last video, we talked about how you can properly set up and connect your external phono preamp, but in this video, I wanted to talk about how you can properly set up and connect your speakers.

So that will be the subject of today’s video.

As mentioned in the first video of this series, you’ll want to make sure that your speakers are ideally on a separate surface than that of your turntable.

The height of the speakers should match the height of where your ears will be when you’re sitting down to listen to your music.

Now, in order to connect these PSB Imagine Mini speakers to my Marantz Integrated Amplifier, I’m of course going to need speaker wire.

I’m going to use 16 gauge speaker wire, which can be found at many online and offline retailers.

Normally, I use Deadbolt banana plugs to connect to both the back of my speakers and my integrated amplifier. But, because the PSB Imagine Mini’s have its binding posts located on the bottom of the speaker, I’m going to directly connect the speaker wire into the binding posts without the banana plugs.

It’s also important to make sure you know which part of the wire is going into the red binding post, as opposed to which one is going into black binding post. For the purposes of this video, I’m going to connect the white lined speaker wire into the black binding post.

Make sure all four wires are connected securely into the back of both your speakers.

Now, on the integrated amplifier, I am going to use banana plugs. Banana plugs are easy to set up—just unscrew the top and bottom, place the speaker wire inside and fray down the wire around the crimping teeth.

Once the wire seems secure, screw the top back on. Do this for all four of your wires and banana plugs.

Now, it’s time to connect your banana plugs into the back of the amp.
The speaker wire that’s connected to the right speaker should of course go into the right speaker input. The speaker wire that’s connected to the left speaker should go into the left speaker input.

You may want to play around with where you connect your speakers depending on how it sounds and how many speakers you’re connecting to your amplifier.

And just like that, your speakers are properly set up and connected.

So that’s it for this video, guys. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you found it to be a little bit helpful.If you did, I would love it if you could hit the “like” button down below. I’d really appreciate that. And don’t forget to Subscribe to my channel if you want to be alerted whenever a new video drops every single week.

Also, if you’re interested in learning how to properly play your vinyl records, then make sure you check out video number six, which will be the last video in this video series.

Thank you again for watching, and I will see you in the next video.

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Intro Music: Far Away (Sting) by MK2
Background Music: Erykah by Otis McDonald