letitrip @ Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:20 pm wrote:
1/4" Phone jack accepts a quarter inch plug that looks like the large headphone style plug. Look up 1/4" cables on musicians friend if you don't know what I mean and want to see what it looks like.
Most pro PA speakers do not have RCA jacks, especially if they are passive (i.e. the amplifier is built it). Passive speakers (in the pro audio realm) will almost always have 1/4" or Neutrik Speakon connectors. Some powered speakers and many powered monitors (i.e. they have the amplifier built into them and only receive a line level input) will have RCA jacks and that's what was being suggested earlier by Jeff.
Also, please understand that the speakers you were looking at are nothing at all close to the JBL's you posted a link to. They are much MUCH larger and heavier and not the type of speaker you'd have sitting in your living room as part of a home theater system. Remember we're talking about 15" speakers, two of them, plus a horn. They're very large and bulky.
The speaker outputs on my mixer/amp are not RCA, they're banana plugs. And I don't mind about the sizes of pro-speakers. I wanted the sound to be better than what i have on my home theater system.
I just purchased a yamaha br-15, just to try out the sound as this speaker has smaller wattage rating than s115v. Guitar center has a 1/4" to banana plug cable that allowed me to connect the speaker to my mixer/amp. As this turned out, the music part is better but the karaoke (vocal) is about the same. I was thinking about getting a better mic (Shure SM58) but don't know if this will help.
Right now I have the dvd player connected to mixer/amp via RCA, then mixer/amp to speakers (1 yamaha br-15 and 1 jbl linked above) and the mics connected to the front of the mixer/amp. Any suggestions on what else I'd need to make karaoke sound better?
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