Speakers - slightly off topic

dhwr at rdslink.ro dhwr at rdslink.ro
Tue Jun 7 09:07:57 UTC 2005


Thanks. But I already have some solution and I'm not very fond of mixing and alike.
     Yours sincerly,
          Nick

Pe 07 Jun 2005, la 11:40, Will Yardley <fedora-list at veggiechinese.net> a scris:

>
>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:31:46PM -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>
>> Now, you could have 4 sets of powered speakers plus the CD player.
>> Or you could find something to mix the 3 outputs together and run
>> it to a single set of speakers. Or even use the AUX input on the CD
>> player.
>
>A small pro audio mixer[1] would do it, but if you don't mind
>matching the levels of the various devices (and if you don't mind
>the occasional "shock" when you forget to do this), and don't need
>to listen to more than one device at once, you could use a passive
>switching box (Radio Shack probably still sells one[2]) that takes
>in 3-4 sets of RCA ins and lets you switch between them to a single
>output. Making such a box isn't difficult either (a multi-position
>rotary switch would probably be your best bet in that case).
>
>You could use Y adapters, but this would not be the preferred solution -
>it would probably result in degraded signal quality and problems
>matching levels.
>
>You could also do some daisy-chaining (i.e., plug the laptop into the
>line in of the desktop, use your music player software to play music
>directly off the mp3 player if possible, etc.) and try to play
>everything out of your desktop (using the builtin mixer software to
>adjust the relative levels).
>
>[1] http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=UB802
>    http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=POWERMIXIII
>    http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=BLEND6
>etc.
>
>[2] http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=15-1983
>
>w
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