wumply
May 16th, 2004, 01:58 AM
I hope this is the correct category for my question.
I want to get stereo audio CD to play over my 2 big analog speakers...bigger than the 2 tiny 3" ones I now have on either side of my monitor. These speakers are in cabinets that measure 12" x 18" x 8". Each on the back has two screws and a jack. The jack says it is 8 ohms. The screws are marked + and -. I assume I will need to go through an external amplifier (it's working well but is old; may even have tubes.)
I will describe controls as pictures of the amplifier back and front and my sound card jacks would exceeds attachment limits. So if they would be helpful, perhaps you could give me an email address for me to take digital snapshots and send them off.
Controls are
1. Power: OFF, System A, System B, A + B and 'spkr off.'
2. Base, treble, balance, volume and selector. Selector has 3 settings: microphone, phono and aux.
3. There is a high filter (on-off) and Low filter (on-off).
4. Loudness (on-off).
5. Mode: Stereo or Mono.
6. There is a tape monitor socket with 5 thin, wiggly holes in it.
7. There is a 1/4" jack for a microphone and the same for connecting earphones.
8. There is a 2-position switch marked "tuner" with a thin white line going to the selector switch (see #2 above.)
In the back there are 8 "push-and-stick-wire-in" connects for the speakers. 1 group of 4 is marked A; the other group of 4 is B. I assume each group can be set up for 2 speakers each. The terminals are marked + or -. Also on the back there are 10 RCA jacks: 5 are left, 5 are right. They come as pairs. The jacks are Phono, aux, tuner, tape monitor. (The tape monitor has 2 jacks for record; 2 more for play--thus the 10 jacks.)
My sound card, Creative SB 1394 has the following jacks:
1. A firewire connector jack.
2. A jack for digital speakers.
3. A Line in jack.
4. A microphone jack.
5. An earphone jack.
6. A jack which the poop sheet says is intended to be used with the earphone jack for connecting to a physical interface that can let you connect up to 5 analog speakers.
All jacks are 1/8" but whether stereo or mono I can't say for sure without opening up the tower. (I will do that if necessary.)
OK. Is what I want to do practical? Is it doable?
Now if it is doable, how do I connect things up so I have stereo sound over 2 of my big speakers and are the connections leaving the sound card mono or stereo? And if these connections are stereo will they not have to be split into 2 as I have 4 of those "push-and-insert-wire" per each set of 2 speakers.
I want to get stereo audio CD to play over my 2 big analog speakers...bigger than the 2 tiny 3" ones I now have on either side of my monitor. These speakers are in cabinets that measure 12" x 18" x 8". Each on the back has two screws and a jack. The jack says it is 8 ohms. The screws are marked + and -. I assume I will need to go through an external amplifier (it's working well but is old; may even have tubes.)
I will describe controls as pictures of the amplifier back and front and my sound card jacks would exceeds attachment limits. So if they would be helpful, perhaps you could give me an email address for me to take digital snapshots and send them off.
Controls are
1. Power: OFF, System A, System B, A + B and 'spkr off.'
2. Base, treble, balance, volume and selector. Selector has 3 settings: microphone, phono and aux.
3. There is a high filter (on-off) and Low filter (on-off).
4. Loudness (on-off).
5. Mode: Stereo or Mono.
6. There is a tape monitor socket with 5 thin, wiggly holes in it.
7. There is a 1/4" jack for a microphone and the same for connecting earphones.
8. There is a 2-position switch marked "tuner" with a thin white line going to the selector switch (see #2 above.)
In the back there are 8 "push-and-stick-wire-in" connects for the speakers. 1 group of 4 is marked A; the other group of 4 is B. I assume each group can be set up for 2 speakers each. The terminals are marked + or -. Also on the back there are 10 RCA jacks: 5 are left, 5 are right. They come as pairs. The jacks are Phono, aux, tuner, tape monitor. (The tape monitor has 2 jacks for record; 2 more for play--thus the 10 jacks.)
My sound card, Creative SB 1394 has the following jacks:
1. A firewire connector jack.
2. A jack for digital speakers.
3. A Line in jack.
4. A microphone jack.
5. An earphone jack.
6. A jack which the poop sheet says is intended to be used with the earphone jack for connecting to a physical interface that can let you connect up to 5 analog speakers.
All jacks are 1/8" but whether stereo or mono I can't say for sure without opening up the tower. (I will do that if necessary.)
OK. Is what I want to do practical? Is it doable?
Now if it is doable, how do I connect things up so I have stereo sound over 2 of my big speakers and are the connections leaving the sound card mono or stereo? And if these connections are stereo will they not have to be split into 2 as I have 4 of those "push-and-insert-wire" per each set of 2 speakers.