Speaker wire vs RCA wire advice

[danza]

I’m a beginner DJ, looking to DJ in my living room for a bit of fun, rather than my 4” JBL setup. I got some Advent Heritage speakers with speaker wire audio input, and my deck has RCA outputs. For better sound, should i convert from RCA to speaker wire closer to the speaker, or closer to the deck? In other words, should i buy a 12 foot RCA plug to speaker wire cable, or a 1 foot and run a 12 foot RCA cable?
Many thanks!

 

[staticV3]

Hi @danza! Welcome to ASR.

Do your Advent Heritage speakers plug into Mains power?

If not, then you cannot plug them directly into your deck. You will have to add a Speaker Amplifier between deck and speakers.

 

[danza]

Hi @danza! Welcome to ASR.

Do your Advent Heritage speakers plug into Mains power?

If not, then you cannot plug them directly into your deck. You will have to add a Speaker Amplifier between deck and speakers.

theres no power on the speakers, but i do have a receiver, i didnt even think of it but am i able to do RCA into that? the red/white/yellow plugins are RCA, correct? ive messed around with some car audio, would that be the sam kind of amplifier?

 

[staticV3]

theres no power on the speakers, but i do have a receiver, i didnt even think of it but am i able to do RCA into that? the red/white/yellow plugins are RCA, correct? ive messed around with some car audio, would that be the sam kind of amplifier?

You can do deck->RCA->receiver->speaker wire->speakers, yes.

 

[Chrispy]

theres no power on the speakers, but i do have a receiver, i didnt even think of it but am i able to do RCA into that? the red/white/yellow plugins are RCA, correct? ive messed around with some car audio, would that be the sam kind of amplifier?

What specific make/model of receiver? Composite connectors (red/white/yellow) would generally be red/white for audio, yellow for video. Home gear and car gear amps are similar but different in how powered and for what impedance range generally.

 

[MaxwellsEq]

You also need to let us know what deck you've got. And it would be helpful to know the receiver model. There may be what's known as a "phono preamplifier" built in to your turntable. If there isn't (older decks especially) you will need to use a standalone phono preamplifier. Or, your receiver may have one built in