Fao Beunchico ( Chris)

[Bobbisox1]

What Jack will I need to go from an Apple iPhone ( music ) to a 100watt speaker ?

[bednobs]

What sort of speaker is it? Could you do it by Bluetooth?

[Bobbisox1]

It’s not Bluetooth BN ( unfortunately ) not sure of the make as I’m borrowing it

[barry1010]

Something like this for your old speaker cable
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[Bobbisox1]

I have one of those Barry but what would I need from the speaker to connect to it ?

[Buenchico]

Hi, Bobbi.

Insufficient info!

Sorry!

Early iPhones (up to the iPhone 6s) have a 3.5mm headphone socket but later models (from iPhone 7 onwards don't). If you've got one of the earlier models, you'll need a cable with a 3.5mm jack plug on the end of it. For a later model, you'll need a wireless adapter.

That only looks at one end of your problem though. The cable from your phone (or wireless adapter, as appropriate) will need to have the correct type of plug(s) to attach it to the amplifier that you're using at the other end. (I'm assuming here that, by '100 watt speaker', you're actually referring to an amplifier that feeds into a speaker. You wouldn't get very far with just a speaker!)

So more information from you is needed before I can advise you any further.

[BTW: If you really are planning on connecting your iPhone to a 100W amplifier, I'm glad that I don't live next door to you! That's heading up towards stadium-filling power!]
;-)

[bednobs]

Unless it's really old it'll probably have a jack?

[Bobbisox1]

It’s for a street part Chris so hopefully all will be outside :0)
My phone is an iphone11

[Buenchico]

^^^ Back to front, Bednobs! It was the older iPhones that had headphone jacks. In common with many newer Android phones, the more recent models don't.

[Bobbisox1]

My phone has no jackpoint

[bednobs]

I was thinking of speakers Chris. I remember when you used to have to trap the wire under a screw. Thinking about it though it couldn't be that cause yhrred be no pwer

[Buenchico]

(I've split this post into two parts, as it contains 2 Amazon links and AB's server sometimes screws up such posts. By putting the links into separate posts, I hope that it will display as I want it to):

As an iPhone 11 doesn't have a headphone jack (or any other type of physical output for audio signals), the sound will have to exit from it via Bluetooth. Unless the amplifier you're using has a Bluetooth input, that means that you'll need a device to capture the Bluetooth output from your phone and convert it to the type of signal that's needed to feed your amplifier. i.e. something like this:
Amazon.com User Recommendation

[Buenchico]

Then you'll need a suitable cable to feed the output of that device into the amplifier but that, of course, depends upon what type of input the amplifier has. If, like the device in my link above, it uses RCA (= 'phono') sockets, you'll simply need a suitable RCA cable, such as this one:
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[Bobbisox1]

Okay, I have one of those cables ( last section) the amp isn’t Bluetooth , so it appears I’ll need one of those twin red and yellow leads from the amp to the iPhone Jack as how does it connect?

[Bobbisox1]

Arh, I’m with you now, thanks so much to you Bednobs and Barry for your help

[Buenchico]

You CAN'T plug any type of audio lead into your iPhone. You have to plug it into an adapter, like the one in my first link above.

That adapter then connects to your iPhone using Bluetooth, so that the signal gets from your phone to the amplifier in two hops. (i.e. with the first hop being via Blutooth and the second hop being through the RCA cable).

[Buenchico]

^^^ Crossed posts, methinks ;-)

[Bobbisox1]

I’ve ordered the twin cables in your link as I’ve got the other one I’ve used at our local for a birthday

[mjwman]

This appears complicated when it is not.

You get a lightning (Apple socket) to jack converter (which I use for my older headphones).

Into that you plug a minature jack to jack cable with a long a cable as needed. If the small jack is not big enough for the amp you get a converter. If the amp has an entirely different input, you get an appropriate converter. All available on Amazon or eBay.

[barry1010]

Is that what I linked to at 16:55, mjw?

[Bobbisox1]

Sorry to bother you Chris/ Barry will this work with a 100watt Amplifier?

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