I’m about to purchase a pair of KRK Rokkit RP5 G2’s today but as I was looking at the pictures of the speaker back I was unsure of how I’d hook it up to my NI Audio 2 DJ. What wires would be good to use with these? I’m looking for something that will keep them sounding great. I’ve attached a picture in case nobody has seen the back.
Thanks!
-Marc.Elektro
P.S. Before I buy it does anybody think I can find better monitors for the price? (Currently $135.95 per speaker)
The best would be either the 1/4" or XLR plugs, I use 1/4". If it’s just home use though the RCA’s should work fine. They are unbalanced so if the cables run near lots of electronics it could cause interference. You’ll need two of either cable and they’ll hook up to each side of the splitter that came with the Audio 2.
This. The Audio 2 outputs unbalanced stereo and you can just use the 1/4" Jack to RCA splitter that came with it and an RCA cable. You’ll probably want to peel the RCA cable into its 2 halves (assuming it’s a standard one) since one cable will be going into each monitor.
As PJ said it would be better to use balanced XLR or Jacks (I use XLR), but for this you’d need either an external mixer with balanced outputs or a converter and it’s not likely to be necessary for home use.
Just so you know. RCA to 1/4" TRS doesn’t make it balanced. It’ll work but techinically it’s not balanced. You would need a “matchbox” or some other such product to balance any rca output. RCA by definition is an unbalanced signal and you can’t “balance” it with just a cable. A balanced signal is a signal sent over 2 feeds that are flipped in phase, any discrepency between those 2 signals on the input end is sent to ground, thus helping with noise and interference between the output of one piece of gear and the input of the other. Just didn’t want the OP to get misinformation. Balanced cabling is always better if you can do it, but not necessary to pass signal.
Just try to keep your cable runs as short as possible and don’t run them parallel to power cables. If you have to cross a power cable do it at a 90 degree angle. But MOST important, have fun and don’t get too caught up in “the best way”, unless you eventually become and audiophile.
offtopic but I am cracking up about the “engineer’s stretch-exercise button.” Can’t stand reaching behind those things each time I want to turn them on or off … and of course you have to do it twice every time!
You can always hook the speakers to a power strip or conditioner so you only have one switch to throw. I have 2 strips for this, one for line level gear ie cd decks, computer, mixer, turntable run on one leg of power and the other for my amps on a separate leg.
Ok Thanks! I just got them yesterday (right on my birthday too!) and the moment I got them I ripped through the tape and set them up. They sound really good! Something weird happens when I turn the volume down on my A2DJ though. For some reason the left speaker is louder than the right speaker at very low volume levels.
Oh and yeah the switches at the back. lol good exercise.
Make sure the level on the back of each speaker is at 0db & start with the HF @ 0db but adjust equally as desired. If that doesn’t balance the signal maybe you have your pan adjusted?
Well for some reason the sound is uneven at low levels (checked panning and volume etc.) so I was thinking it might be because of the 1/4 TRS- RCA splitter I’m using.
