/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I went back and forth with some anon about getting rid of this sort of derelict volume knob in my wall. It connects to four speakers. At this point, I'm going to try to just make sure the speakers work before I get creative.

So I got an adapter that will let my laptop output to two banana jacks. I've got a banana jack wall plate I can put elsewhere. And I got some speaker wire https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009RT2IAK . I was hoping I could take the ends off the speaker wire, wrap the copper around the input to the knob, and then chain that to my laptop. Thing is, the copper in these wires is like three times as thick as the shitty wire already going from knob to speaker. Should I even try tying this wire to the input screws? Am I retarded? Do I need some other sort of adapter thing? What am I missing?

This house has a volume knob wall plate in the basement. Looks like it connects to these four in-ceiling speakers. I was convinced this used to connect to this trashy, proprietary satellite TV wall plate down the wall so that you could tweak home theater style sound settings or something. Now I'm not certain it connects to anything, which begs the question what the fuck the knob is for. Two questions I guess. 1 Can I just plug these into uh banana jacks or whatever, and then replace the knob wall plate with a four- or eight-port wall plate? Link below, I guess. 2 What am I missing here? Did the weirdos living here before literally have a knob that didn't get any input from elsewhere? Am I missing where you would plug even an old TV into this?

https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Deadbolt-Banana-Plugs-with-Fast-Lock-Technology-12-Pair-24-Pieces/dp/B006U3O566/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/OSD-Audio-WP4-Binding-Speakers/dp/B0093IWGSO?th=1