Hooking up crt monitor to imac g5

I just went out and bought a used crt monitor to work with color. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to hook it up to my imac G5 computer. How do I do this? What cables do I need. The monitor is a JVC TM-1400SU and came with a BNC to RCA cable.
Any help?

The iMac's output jack is meant for driving low power items like headphones or amplified speakers, so its maximum output power is in the milliwatt range. If your speakers aren't self-powered (they will have some power source like batteries or a power plug if they are), the iMac will not be able to supply enough power to play them at more than whisper levels without lots of distortion.
So, using an amp will sound much better with unpowered speakers, particularly if both are high quality, high fidelity components like the topic's author is talking about.
However, if your speakers already are amplified (self-powered), just plug them into the iMac directly. There is nothing to gain by adding a power amp unless you can connect directly to the speakers.

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If you can sleep just the internal display and keep the
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