My in-laws system (1 Viewer)

[MichaelMc]

Hey there,
I'm at my in-laws. They have just moved into a new home. Hooked up throughout the house are various speakers over two levels of the house. They all lead to one cabinet area and they are looking to buy a receiver. Pictured are the ends of the cables. I recognize the banana plugs, but the other two are foreign to me. If you wouldn't mind a brief explanation of what they could link up to and which receiver would be worth purchasing would be h

 

[BaconFat]

I might be wrong, but those three connectors on the left look like what is used with a multi-room amp. If you look as some Russound amps their speaker wire connectors look similar. I believe the connectors on the amps are removable to ease the installation of the speaker wires.

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Bacon is correct, those are Phoenix connectors from a multi-room amplifier. You can easily see how each makes for a compact connection of two speakers compared to regular banana plugs. If you don’t want to use a multiroom amp, you can always unscrew the wires from the connector and use a regular amp with banana plugs.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[PhilAR]

The final two yellow wires are ethernet cables for hooking the system up to a router.