Hello, today I picked up a set of old Pioneer speakers for free that are in good working order, and until i can put pictures up the only other identification I have is the serial # which is MC075009U. My dad and I want to put them in our workout room in the corners of one side of the room @ 45*. The speakers have a simple red/black port things that you put spliced(??) wires into.  Right now we have a Sony CFD-G500 boombox that we want to relocate to the middle and somehow run the wiring to the Pioneers. we'd need about 10ft of wiring.

1) Can I buy the wires I need at like a radio shack, and do they come spliced or how do i put them in to the speakers?

2) Does the boombox need a special port to accept the wires or can a standard headphone jack work?

3) If for whatever reason we couldn't use the boombox we already have, can we buy some sort of cheap CD player that would accept the wires? We only play CD's and occasionally Cassettes, the boombox we have doesn't have an iPod hookup.

  Thnkz!

Hi, sounds like you're having fun.  OK..

1. Yes you can, any speaker wire will do, in fact any dual core wire will do (wire with two metal strands running through it), you'll probably find that telephone wire will also work.  Go to your DIY shop and look for any wire which when cut in half has a section like a figure of '8' with a metal core running through each circle of the '8' , if you know what I mean.

2. Yes, your boombox will need special speaker output jacks.  Some have 'extension speaker' jacks some don't.  Sadly you won't be able to run speakers off it if it doesn't.  Also, the power output of most boomboxes is tiny and you'll probably find that it fills the room better without the speakers.  Headphone jacks are for headphones so have tiny amp circuits to provide just enough output for your ears.

3. You will need to get an amplifier, you can buy them cheaply on eBay now.  Mot/all amplifiers have outputs for speakers which accept your wires as well as inputs where you can wire in your source (CD player, cassette player etc) but whatever you wire into it needs to have a 'line out' which means it spits out a non-amplified signal.  Your headphone jack on a portable cd player has an amplified signal (for headphones), don't wire this into an amplifier.

Personally I'd just use the boombox, you won't get more sound from it by adding speakers.  Sony spent money and time developing your boombox to sound as good as possible.