One of the most common questions we get is about using our Speakon connector equipped speaker cables. It’s a good question and it is very easy to understand why a customer might be confused.
There are three versions of the NL series connector, and you can find out more about those here. The confusion comes from many manufacturers choosing to use the NL4 style connector (4 poles) in applications where only two conductors are needed. This has led to a sort of “de facto” standardization based on the fact that the Speakon standard has been slowly accepted as the way to go by most speaker cabinet and amplifier manufacturers.
By using the NL4 standard, speaker manufacturers have been able to create a product that can be either “mono-amped”(single signal for all components in the speaker cabinet) or “bi-amped” (separate amp signal for the two different components in the cabinet). The ability to choose whether a speaker is mono-amped or bi-amped based on internal wiring in the cabinet creates lots of flexibility and this makes the confusion worth while.
Speaker cables from buyspeakercable.com are all two conductor but use the NL4 connector standard.
Best of all (even with yet a little more confusion), the NL4 male connector will fit into the same female connector as the NL2. They are completely interchangeable.
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