I have a cheap surround speaker system that plugs into the green and black holes on my creative sound card. I am thinking of using it with my music laptop but I only have a headphone socket on it plus the balanced 1/4 inch line outs on my sound module. Normal pc speakers sound like crap coming out of the headphone jack probably because I am going from the headphone amp into the speaker amp. The 1/4 inch outs on the sound module are line outputs so I reason If I could split each cable from the surround into two and stick a quarter inch jack on each end, I could plug into 4 of my line outputs and use the surround speaker system as a cheap active monitor. Any ideas why this would not be feasible?
In article <1142523987.937578.200920@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, sane54 <witzgall@swbell.net> wrote:>I have a cheap surround speaker system that plugs into the green and>black holes on my creative sound card. I am thinking of using it with>my music laptop but I only have a headphone socket on it plus the>balanced 1/4 inch line outs on my sound module. Normal pc speakers>sound like crap coming out of the headphone jack probably because I am>going from the headphone amp into the speaker amp. The 1/4 inch outs on>the sound module are line outputs so I reason If I could split each>cable from the surround into two and stick a quarter inch jack on each>end, I could plug into 4 of my line outputs and use the surround>speaker system as a cheap active monitor. Any ideas why this would not>be feasible?
Sure, that should be fine. Don't expect much quality out of cheap multimedia speakers, but there's no reason you can't just make up a 3.5mm TRS to dual 1/4" cable and go. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
In article <1142523987.937578.200920@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,> sane54 <witzgall@swbell.net> wrote:>
I have a cheap surround speaker system that plugs into the green and>>black holes on my creative sound card. I am thinking of using it with>>my music laptop but I only have a headphone socket on it plus the>>balanced 1/4 inch line outs on my sound module. Normal pc speakers>>sound like crap coming out of the headphone jack probably because I am>>going from the headphone amp into the speaker amp. The 1/4 inch outs on>>the sound module are line outputs so I reason If I could split each>>cable from the surround into two and stick a quarter inch jack on each>>end, I could plug into 4 of my line outputs and use the surround>>speaker system as a cheap active monitor. Any ideas why this would not>>be feasible?>
Sure, that should be fine. Don't expect much quality out of cheap> multimedia speakers, but there's no reason you can't just make up> a 3.5mm TRS to dual 1/4" cable and go.
Or buy one premade from Radio Shack or similar store. Really, people do this all the time.
BTW, Normal PC speakers sound like crap coming out of the headphone jack because normal PC speakers sound like crap all the time no matter what signal you give them.
