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originalself

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sound to cab speakers?
« on: December 12, 2003, 11:19:04 pm »
How do i get audio from the sound card to my cab speakers, I have everything connected via a jpac to the jamma harness. Most people seem to use pc speakers but i like my cab speakers. can anyone help or point to a good guide?
How do I make the wires to goto the jpac, do i strip a headphone plug?
thanks
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Re:sound to cab speakers?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2003, 10:44:25 am »
Well you will probably need to get some sort of amplifier for them..

I have heard some people getting a pair of computer speakers and then gutting out the amp in the subwoofer..  or if you can find a stand-alone amplifier for them..

I went off the deep end ;)  I bought a receiver on sale for 79.99 to drive my speakers.  Have a pair of polk audio 6.5" component speakers.  I just plug the digital out of my soundcard into the receiver and viola.. as a bonus now  I can play AM/FM on the thing too..

At first I was looking into a stand-alone amplifier.. but unless you can get a used price.. it's almost cheaper to go this way..

Cheapest way will probably be some sort of speaker hack.. but i'm inexperienced at those..

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Re:sound to cab speakers?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2003, 05:22:15 pm »
I think this might be what you want to do:

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/speaker/

I did this for my cab and I am very pleased with the results.