Sorry I know it is a long post...but any advice would be great!
What I want to achieve:
Four speakers, two in each room, powered by one amplifier that I will then connect my laptop to so I can play my mp3 collection.
The situation currently:
Each room has two cat5 cables coming back to a central point. Currently there are no connectors on either end of the cable.
This is what I think I need to do:
In each room I need to put speaker jack connectors on each of the cables. At the central point, where all four cables run back to to, I need to put connectors on the cables that allow me to plug them into the amplifier. This is where I get confused. Do I need a speaker switch box? Or do I connect the speakers in parallel or serial? Below is the spefications for the speakers and amplifier (yes I know it is all super budget stuff). The other question I have is can the cat5 cable connect to the speakers given they are Spring Terminal Inputs? Sorry to ask so many silly questions, I have been reading heaps on the internet and it has just all got really confusing....
I will appricate any advice, cheers guys!
SPEAKERS
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2 Way IM Design
100mm Bass Driver
20mm Soft Dome Tweeter
10Hz-20KHz Response
84db Sensitivity
10-50 watts
8 ohms
Spring Terminal Inputs
AMPLIFIER
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PHONO INPUT
Input impedance 47kΩ
Input sensitivity 3.8mV (to suit magnetic cartridges)
LINE LEVEL INPUTS
Input impedance 47kΩ
Input sensitivity 250mV (Tape/AUX, tuner, DAB)
650mV (CD & DVD)
LINE LEVEL OUTPUTS
Output impedance:
Line out 100kΩ
Headphones 300Ω
Maximum output level -
Line out 740mV
Headphones 1.25V @ 30Ω
TONE CONTROL ATTENUATION
Treble +/- 14dB @ 10KHz (+0,- 3dB)
Bass +/- 14dB @ 100Hz (+0,- 3dB)
POWER OUTPUT
2 x 40 watts RMS @ 4Ω
2 x 30 watts RMS @ 8Ω
FREQUENCY RESPONSE
10Hz to 50kHz (-3dB points)
DISTORTION
less than 0.05 @ 1watt
SIGNAL NOISE RATIO (A WEIGHTED)
>80dB
CHANNEL SEPARATION
>59dB
