What does red versus black equal?

Step 1 Select locations for each of the Coby 5.1 speakers. Place the correct channel speakers in the best location possible. For example, a right-rear speaker should not be placed to the front left of the TV.
Step 2 Measure and cut lengths of speaker wire that run from each speaker to the Coby receiver. Include a few extra feet for mistakes. The speaker wire has two color wires, a red (power) and black (ground).
Step 3 Attach the red wire to the positive (+) terminal for each speaker. Attach the black wire to the ground (-) of each speaker.
Step 4 Make sure the receiver is unplugged. Examine the back of the receiver. There are speaker terminals for each of the speakers. Plug each speaker wire into its respective terminal. For example, plug the right-rear speaker into the right-rear terminal. Each terminal is clearly labeled.
Plug RCA cables into the appropriate input ports on the receiver. For example, there are RCA ports for the TV and DVD player. Plug the other ends of the RCA cables into their appropriate devices. For example, the DVD input on the receiver plugs into the audio output port on the DVD player. RCA audio cables are red and white, make sure to match the colors correctly: red with red, white with white.
Items you will need

• Speaker wire
• Wire stripper
• RCA cables

Pull the radio out, tape off all wires but yellow, red and black. Twist red/ yellow together and attach to positive 12 volt, attach black wire to negative 12 volts. Turn on radio and see if it comes out of protect mode. If it does, you will have to troubleshoot all of the speaker wires to find a short.

You need to run RCA cables from the CD player to the CD or AUX input on your amp / receiver unit. If you have a standalone amp, you need some way to control the volume. Basically, if you have a volume control on the front of your amp, you're OK. If not, you should also have a preamplifier that the CD player feeds first.

From the amplifier, then, a single pair of speaker outputs feeds a single pair of inputs on your speakers. The reason for two jack sets on the speakers is for "bi-wiring" or "bi-amping", not necessary for basic stereo reproduction.

So -

CD red/white RCA out -> preamp/receiver red/white CD/AUX input. Amp speaker output (red + / black -) to one red/black input pair on the speakers. An input on the speaker is side by side...

Keep the red to red, black to black when connecting the speakers, or you will wind up with poor sound and weak bass.

white is right and grey is left

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Make sure the speaker are plugged into the "audio out" ports. Black negative, red positive.
If a dvd players or other system is hooked up, the speaker should hook into that unit, then the unit is hooked to the auxiliary port(s), or the proper ports for each unit: ex: cd/dvd should be plugged into vd/dvd; same for vcr, game system - auxiliary is for pretty much any unit not listed on the backing of the receive - however, some units will still work while plugged into the ports other than auxiliary.
Make sure the receive is selected to the desired device.
If you simply have the speakers plugged into the speaker ports, make sure the speaker themselves are still good - try hooking them up to another source such as a a dvd player equipped with surround sound or speaker adapters that will suffice your speaker wiring.
Please let me know if you need further assistance.
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has to do with the ohm either 4 or 8 of the speakers, sometimes if you try to run pairs of speakers out of the same port (2 on the left port and 2 on the right-4 speakers on 2 ports) the speakers will work but when you set them up on an A or B selector and try to run both A & B at the same time one of the speakers will cut out. Check the OHM ratings and if all else fails run them off the same port using only A.

Black is ground
Yellow is battery
Red is ignition
Blue w/white strip is remote antenna

You may need to enable the fixed audio output line level from the TV. Some TV`s require you to enter the AUDIO menu/setup selection on the TV remote controller, and then enable the AUDIO OUTPUT Jacks, this will turn off the TV built in speakers and engage the audio RCA Jacks.

THE SPEAKER WIRES ARE REVERSED.... On the receiver the red side is always positive and black is always negative.
change + to - or
change - to + on one or more speakers.
positive side--------------------negative side
red --------------------------------black wire
gold wirew/silver--------------silver wirew/gold
white lined----------------------non-white lined

red - power
Black - Ground
Blue/Black - rear Left Speaker Positive
Blue - Rear Left Speaker Neg
White/ Black - Front Left Speaker Positive
White - Front Left Speaker Neg
Brown/Black - Rear Right Speaker Positive
Brown - Rear Right Speaker Neg
Yellow/Black - Front Right Speaker Positive
Yellow - Front Right Speaker neg
Green - Left Input Positive
Green/White Left input Neg
Gray Right Input Positive
Gray/White - Right input Neg