JBL GO 3 - Wireless Bluetooth portable speaker with integrated loop for travel with USB C charging cable, in red

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The components inside the cabinet haven’t been changed, meaning you will still get the signature Russell K sound from them. What can you choose from? Just undo the screw a little, insert the bare wire, and then tighten the screw again. Then, make sure you have a firm connection by gently pulling the speaker wire.

For music, the drum kit would be the ‘wrong way round.’ Any sound effects or instruments placed on the left would appear on the right – and vice versa. Since its start in 2014, his brand’s modest catalogue has been confined to the Red 100 and 50 standmounts and flagship 150 floorstander. These are now joined by the shorter, slimmer Red 120 before you. Remove about ½ inch of insulation from each wire. This can be done with a sharp knife or a dedicated wire stripper. One wire will connect the positive and negative posts for a single speaker output. The other end of that same wire will connect to the speaker.Out of phase – Speakers wired differently. One positive to positive, and negative to negative. But the other, positive to negative and negative to positive. Banana plugs are my favorite way of connecting speaker wires. You will need to buy these as a separate accessory to your wire.

The first thing you want to do is look at the connections on your speakers and amplifier. This will determine how you can connect the speaker wire.I often forget to thread the cap onto the cable before securing the plug to the wire. Which means I have to undo it all again! You could also use them with binding posts by inserting them through the central hole in the post – and then tightening the cap. But it’s not the usual way of using this type of connector. With two speakers rather than one, you get a much more immersive, three-dimensional sound. KEF’s Uni-Q speaker technology combines with their Music Integrity Engine for superb sonic precision, pinpoint accuracy and the least distortion possible. For music files up to 24-bit/48kHz, you don’t even have to physically link the speakers, making them wireless in every respect (a linking cable is supplied for listening to Hi-Res music files). Spade connectors can be ideal when attaching a wire to speakers installed very close to a wall. In that case, you may not have enough room to use banana plugs.

Banana plug pins are a standard 4mm in diameter, just right to fit into the end of a binding post. Using Spade Connectors The Red 50s didn’t suffer at all in my many listening sessions with any fatigue associated with the soft dome tweeter implemented here. Russell has a neat little process which he vigorously goes through with all of his designs. He will acquire a range of high frequency drivers and play predominantly pop music through them on a bench in full range from an amplifier to asses their capabilities. This process has worked excellently, he will then select the most suitable tweeter for cabinet design and have it tweaked further with copper faraday rings (for instance) and careful crossover component selection. Anybody hearing his designs will have undoubted appreciation for his approach and implementation. Spring clips are more common on budget amplifiers and speakers – and all-in-one systems. However, they can be found in all types of equipment. Connecting speaker wire to a spring clip connector In this case, you wire one speaker from positive to positive and negative to negative. But the other is wired incorrectly from negative to positive and positive to negative. During the process of reviewing the Red 50s I’ve used a few amps on them. A Jeff Rowland integrated some Muse Monos with Rowland pre and my DiDiT DAC/PRE with some Cairn Monos. Each pairing of amplification has driven the speakers with no issues and although not very sensitive they are an easy load to drive. Each pairing has also proven to me how transparent the 50s are and the character of each amplifier has really shone through without damaging the Russell K flavour of house sound.There is no effect if you reverse the positive and negative wires for a single speaker. Negative to positive and positive to negative from the amplifier to a single speaker.