[Asystole]

Last night, I came home a drunken mess and knocked one of my JBL Creatures off the desk and to the hard floor. It stopped working.

I purchased these long ago, and god knows where the reciept is. I figured, since i'm SOL anyway, I might try to salvage this setup.

I dug out my old set of Apple Pro's, and clipped the ends. I did the same with the JBL's. Now, Apple, the masters of THINK DIFFERENT, decided to use non-standard coloring with their speakers. The JBL's have a white and red, the Apple's have a yellow and brown wires.

Can someone better with audio and electronics help me out?

[indigoimac]

Buy a few beers less and...
JBL

[gto47]

You probably just shorted the wire somewhere in the jbl satellite speaker housing. Taking the housing apart and and re-soldering the connectors to the speaker driver inside should be sufficient to repair it. Nice job destroying your pro speakers by the way although if you were able to get them hooked up they would probably sound decent enough as the power rating on the apple pro speakers is 10 wpc and the rating on the creature satellites is 8wpc(If you're an audiophile lets not bicker about wattage and current). You will get sound regardless of which wire is hooked into which, and I think most people won't notice the difference. IE: If you buy a stereo at circuit city (which i do not suggest) the cablings that you will buy there for it will not be labeled + & -, and don't think for a second that every consumer that buys one has a multimeter with a continuity tester on it to check that the leads have been connected with uniformity. But to answer your question, my inclination is that yellow is positive, brown is negative, and red is positive, white is negative. In other words match red to yellow, white to brown. You could certaintly verify this with a cheap multimeter such as this one. by checking the output polarities from the amplifier which in this case is integrated into the subwoofer and with the pro speakers integrated into your macintosh.