Need help Setting up my Polk T15

[Aidan Hartline]

So I bought a pair of Polk T15 Speakers on black Friday because I found a good deal and I needed speakers and I also bought a Audio Interface (Uphoria UM22). Now here is my trouble, the speakers only have direct wire connections with the clamping system to lock them in. The Audio Interface has 1/4 inch jacks for the speaker output. So my question is, how can I turn 16 gauge speaker wire, like the amazon basics speaker wire, into 1/4 inch jacks so that they can go into the audio interface? 

I have seen a few solutions but don't know how to or which I should go with.

I have seen some that are just a 1/4 inch jack and on the other side it is just bare speaker wire.

Another where I can buy quarter inch jacks that are designed for speaker cable and to be dissembled and reassembled around the wire.

And I thought of just buying a 12 foot 1/4 inch to 1/4 inch jack and cutting it in half and splitting it myself.

Or are can Banana clips work with the speakers and I just need to find some with a 1/4 inch jack?

Would any of these solutions work? If so which is the best of them? 

All help is appreciated. Thanks

 

Audio Interface

Polk Audio T15

Speaker Wire

 

 

[Derkoli]

5 minutes ago, Aidan Hartline said:

So I bought a pair of Polk T15 Speakers on black Friday because I found a good deal and I needed speakers and I also bought a Audio Interface (Uphoria UM22). Now here is my trouble, the speakers only have direct wire connections with the clamping system to lock them in. The Audio Interface has 1/4 inch jacks for the speaker output. So my question is, how can I turn 16 gauge speaker wire, like the amazon basics speaker wire, into 1/4 inch jacks so that they can go into the audio interface? 

I have seen a few solutions but don't know how to or which I should go with.

I have seen some that are just a 1/4 inch jack and on the other side it is just bare speaker wire.

Another where I can buy quarter inch jacks that are designed for speaker cable and to be dissembled and reassembled around the wire.

And I thought of just buying a 12 foot 1/4 inch to 1/4 inch jack and cutting it in half and splitting it myself.

Or are can Banana clips work with the speakers and I just need to find some with a 1/4 inch jack?

Would any of these solutions work? If so which is the best of them? 

All help is appreciated. Thanks

 

Audio Interface

Polk Audio T15

Speaker Wire

 

 

You're going to need an amp, the 1/4 inch output are line level, not speaker level, so we need to amplify those voltage/current level's with an amplifier, you can grab these for cheap, such as an SMSL SA100, or for cheap a small Lepai amp.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Amplifier-TPA3116D2-Channel-Adjustment-Amplifiers/dp/B07Q2XC7K3/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=smsl&qid=1575243502&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExVENCVExLN1Q4RUVLJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTY5Mjg1MjJXQ1lXTlRVQ0FJTSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTEwMTEwMVBXTlQyMUlCWllLNCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lepai-LP-2020TI-Instruments-TPA3118-Amplifier/dp/B071FJF4FF/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lepai&qid=1575243548&sr=8-1

 

Then, we need to convert the 1/4inch to RCA to plug into the amplifier.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-CPR-202-Stereo-Interconnect-Meters/dp/B000068O17/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=1%2F4+inch+to+rca&qid=1575243578&sr=8-3

 

So now we go from the audio interface, to the amplifier, then to the Polk T15 speakers. (good choice BTW, Polk make decently nice stuff)

 

[Aidan Hartline]

1 hour ago, Derkoli said:

You're going to need an amp, the 1/4 inch output are line level, not speaker level, so we need to amplify those voltage/current level's with an amplifier, you can grab these for cheap, such as an SMSL SA100, or for cheap a small Lepai amp.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Amplifier-TPA3116D2-Channel-Adjustment-Amplifiers/dp/B07Q2XC7K3/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=smsl&qid=1575243502&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExVENCVExLN1Q4RUVLJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTY5Mjg1MjJXQ1lXTlRVQ0FJTSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTEwMTEwMVBXTlQyMUlCWllLNCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lepai-LP-2020TI-Instruments-TPA3118-Amplifier/dp/B071FJF4FF/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lepai&qid=1575243548&sr=8-1

 

Then, we need to convert the 1/4inch to RCA to plug into the amplifier.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-CPR-202-Stereo-Interconnect-Meters/dp/B000068O17/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=1%2F4+inch+to+rca&qid=1575243578&sr=8-3

 

So now we go from the audio interface, to the amplifier, then to the Polk T15 speakers. (good choice BTW, Polk make decently nice stuff)

 

Ah ok. So starting from my audio interface, we go with the 1/4 inch plugged into the audio interface, to the RCA into the Amp. From there we then can use regular speaker wire from the amp into the speaker itself. Makes sense to me! Thanks so much cause I was pretty lost tbh. 

[Derkoli]

16 hours ago, Aidan Hartline said:

Ah ok. So starting from my audio interface, we go with the 1/4 inch plugged into the audio interface, to the RCA into the Amp. From there we then can use regular speaker wire from the amp into the speaker itself. Makes sense to me! Thanks so much cause I was pretty lost tbh. 

No problem