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Audio connection quad amp to pc
« on: November 28, 2018, 01:08:44 pm »
Hello,

I recently bought a San Francisco rush atari racing cabinet and am looking how to convert it to a multi game cabinet.

But,now I am unsure how to connect the atari SF rush quad amp to a pc for conversion.

In the wiring manual I see a connector labeled chin2 with connector pins for frontleft+ -, frontright +-, backleft +- and backright +-
But how would I go from the pc side to these 8 pins?

I could also omit the Atari amp and only use the wires going to the speakers, but which amp would I need to use to go from 4 speakers+sub to a pc soundcard?

Thanks for any tips.

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Re: Audio connection quad amp to pc
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2018, 05:16:37 pm »
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Re: Audio connection quad amp to pc
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2018, 10:40:03 am »
Mhm... The most easy solution seems to be setting your soundcard to 4.0 Sound, and then just use two 3.5mm headphone to 2 rca cables - that would give you the 8 required lines.


+ being the individual signal, - being the common ground
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Re: Audio connection quad amp to pc
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2018, 01:10:03 pm »
Thank you for your answer!

I understand that the 2x 3.5mm to 2 rca cables would give me the 4 + ones (FL FR RR RL speakers).
But how would I connect (or from where do I get) the 4 common ground wires?

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Re: Audio connection quad amp to pc
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2018, 01:18:02 pm »
An RCA jack has two Connections - just connect the outer one (the ground) to each - input.
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Re: Audio connection quad amp to pc
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2018, 01:23:19 pm »
Ahh I understand! Thanks again!  :applaud: