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vidmouse:
Working on two MAME conversions right now, both cabs have their
original speakrs. My first cab was a scratch-build, and I used some
PC speakers so it was easy to hook up sound. Not sure how to do
it if I try to use the speakers that are already in the cab... do you have
run them to some kind of AMP and then to the PC?
RayB:
--- Quote from: vidmouse on June 01, 2008, 07:02:33 pm ---Working on two MAME conversions right now, both cabs have their
original speakrs. My first cab was a scratch-build, and I used some
PC speakers so it was easy to hook up sound. Not sure how to do
it if I try to use the speakers that are already in the cab... do you have
run them to some kind of AMP and then to the PC?
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Yes, unless you have a sound card capable of amping up the output. Sometimes setting the soundcard to "headphones" makes it pump out higher volume.
If that doesn't work, use a cheap set of PC speakers, remove just the speakers and wire up the existing cabinet speakers instead.
Ummon:
I think there's stuff in the wiki on this. Plus, isn't some of Oscar's old stuff (like this) archived there?
Ninja-chicken:
I used the original speakers in my cabinet. I just taped the speaker wire to an old phono to headphone converter (see link below). Then I plugged that directly into my sound card (on board actually) and it works a treat. It's very loud, but not all sound cards are powered so yours might not work so well...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-Headphone-to-Hifi-adapter-3-5mm-plug-to-2-phono_W0QQitemZ280231700312QQihZ018QQcategoryZ112531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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