I am using Crown amplifier. You know the Output Connectors are High
current screw terminals that can accept spade lugs, banana plugs or bare
wire. While many loudspeaker use Neutrik Speakon Connectors and I have
quite a number of loudspeaker cable with Speakon at both ends. I was
wondering is there any reliable adapter available for connecting the
Neutrik speakon connector to the screw terminal of Crown so that I can
plug and play easily on the road ?

john wrote:

I am using Crown amplifier. You know the Output Connectors are High
current screw terminals that can accept spade lugs, banana plugs or bare
wire. While many loudspeaker use Neutrik Speakon Connectors and I have
quite a number of loudspeaker cable with Speakon at both ends. I was
wondering is there any reliable adapter available for connecting the
Neutrik speakon connector to the screw terminal of Crown so that I can
plug and play easily on the road ?

Do you normally carry the amp around in a rack? I've seen this done
with panel-mount Speakon connectors just wired to the back of the amp.
Seems to work just fine.

I don't know if they make inline female Speakon connectors (I've never
seen them, but that proves nothing). But if they don't and you want
something hanging off the back of the amp instead of panel-mount,
you could make a short custom cable running from the back of the amp
to a male Speakon connector (or connectors), and then use one of the
inline female-to-female adaptors. Everything should lock in place,
so the connection should be pretty secure this way. Although it is
an aweful lot of unnecessary contact surfaces...

- Logan

In article writes:

I don't know if they make inline female Speakon connectors

They do. I believe that Hosa makes one with a short pigtail with spade
lugs, just the adapter that the original poster was looking for. I'd
leave this attached to the Speakon-Speakon cable rather than the
amplifier though. Less likely to get damaged from careless packing
that way.

However to eliminate potential points of failure I'd simply buy or
build speakers cables with Speakon connectors on one end and spade
lugs on the other. Alternately, a connector panel on the back of the
rack as you suggested is good. This will assure that you won't lose or
forget the adapter, and keep the adapter from banging around loose
somewhere.


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john wrote:
I am using Crown amplifier. You know the Output Connectors are High
current screw terminals that can accept spade lugs, banana plugs or bare
wire. While many loudspeaker use Neutrik Speakon Connectors and I have
quite a number of loudspeaker cable with Speakon at both ends. I was
wondering is there any reliable adapter available for connecting the
Neutrik speakon connector to the screw terminal of Crown so that I can
plug and play easily on the road ?

Neutrik, as of about six months ago, now makes a female cable-mount
Speakon, so you can easily make a set of pigtails for your amp.
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In article znr1081512847k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:

In article
writes:

I don't know if they make inline female Speakon connectors

They do. I believe that Hosa makes one with a short pigtail with spade
lugs, just the adapter that the original poster was looking for. I'd
leave this attached to the Speakon-Speakon cable rather than the
amplifier though. Less likely to get damaged from careless packing
that way.

Female cable mount Speakon connectors do NOT (and according to Kathy at
Nuetrik will probably never) exist. (Speakon is a Nuetrik trademark and
Speakon connectors are made only by Nuetrik). There is a female cable
mount connector in the Cannon EP series that will mate with Nuetrik
Speakons but in some cases it has been reported to not be 100% compatible.
(There are probably some far east versions too, which may be of questionable
quality.)

However to eliminate potential points of failure I'd simply buy or
build speakers cables with Speakon connectors on one end and spade
lugs on the other. Alternately, a connector panel on the back of the
rack as you suggested is good. This will assure that you won't lose or
forget the adapter, and keep the adapter from banging around loose
somewhere.

I'll second the vote for using a connector panel on the back of the rack.
This is the solution I use myself even though my Crown amps have speakon
connectors only.

-ray

Connector panel on the rack with NL4s (and PowerCons for AC), Mouser.com
174-5791 (black) and 174-5795 (red) banana plugs into the amp.
http://www.padrick.net/Rack.jpg


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I am using Crown amplifier. You know the Output Connectors are High
current screw terminals that can accept spade lugs, banana plugs or bare
wire. While many loudspeaker use Neutrik Speakon Connectors and I have
quite a number of loudspeaker cable with Speakon at both ends. I was
wondering is there any reliable adapter available for connecting the
Neutrik speakon connector to the screw terminal of Crown so that I can
plug and play easily on the road ?

Alternately, a connector panel on the back of the
rack as you suggested is good.

Or as a further alternative, punch the panel on the back of your amp & install
panel mount Speakons in parallel to your binding posts.


Scott Fraser

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On 2004-04-11 said:
I will have to agree with the suggestions to build a
connector panel for the back of your rack.
Back when I was involved with this sort of thing, we used
exclusively Crown stuff; starting with racks of DC-300s, then the
Micros, and later the Macros. We realized early on that wiring
these things up at a gig was somewhat akin to doing an automotive
tune-up on the berm of an Interstate Highway.
In addition to the outputs being on the panel, we also brought the
inputs out to panel-mount XLRs. We used about two feet of extra
cable for each connection. Then, we ran the rack screws from the
_inside_, exposing the threads. We set the panel on the threads and
secured it with low-profile wingnuts. This way, should anything
need serviced, we could easily remove the panel (without tools!)
great idea. I'm in the process of making life simpler for my gigging
racks. NEver thought of the backward screws and wingnuts idea.

For the AC, at first, we stupidly installed single panel-mount male
Edisons into the sides of the racks, and distributed power to all of
the amps from the single Edison. Quickly realizing the current
required by all of the amps in a rack was more than the single
Edison's rating, we swapped them out for adequately rated Hubbel
twistlocks. Hence, one connection, all amps in the rack are powered.
It might sound like a lot of work up-front, but the dividends are
paid in the additional time available to knock over mic stands and
spill beer on the monitors. (I don't do SR anymore.....)
ONe rack will do fine with a single edison as it's all modules and
processing. THe other will eventually need something else and that
will be my solution as well.

GOt rained out of an easter sunrise service here at Audubon park in
NEw ORleans this morning and was sure thinking last night about how I
wished I"d not put off some of that project in favor of killing a few
bears in the ham shack woods instead. Had I done my legwork and done
this already my connection time would have been about half what it
takes now. THis blind man knows by feel which side of the banana for
the amps is black and red and which terminal is which on the amps, no
prob there. HOwever it's still a pita to get half inside the rack to
reach them and then to have to reach around all the ac cabling and
signal cables which are already patched inside the rack g.


THen there's the synths and signal processing. Multi pins are going
to be my life savers here eventually. oNE quick connection and
everything's hot as far as audio is concerned.

IF you're like some musos and play out to get chicks and have a good
time you'll find the time you save at the gigs for setup will allow
you to spend that much more time doing the things you came there
for---schmoozing with the babes and getting your head right for the
gig g.

IF you're doing SR for your daily bread you'll save yourself aggro and
have time for troubleshooting other problems which need attention
before the show. THat gives the musos more time to see if they can
mooch spare guitar cables and 9 volt batteries for their tuners g.
REmember that if the musos find that you might loan their guitar god a
battery for his tuner or the keyboard guy a cable they'll say you're a
good outfit to work with because you'll communicate with the band.

DOn't forget that the drummer's probably going to want to borrow a
screwdriver wrench pliers or wd40 for his kick drum pedal. Save all
that time you can on the front end so you can chase the tools he
borrows and get them back so you're not bummed the next time you need
them and they're gone.



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