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ammitz:
Hi

I'm building a bartop MAME machine. I've bought this MOBO (Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L) which supports "Home theater quality 8-channel High Definition Audio"
On the back panel of the MOBO there is 6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/ Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone), you can see them to the right on this picture


Because of my design of the cabinet with a lot of different angels, I will not be able to build the back of the MOBO into the backpanel. I would like to have acces to a least 3 of the audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/ Side Speaker Out). Not that i will use the regulary, but sometimes i might wanna use them.

So I would like to make some kind of extension from the MOBO to the backpanel where it should be buildt in, so it would look nice and give me a quick acces.

Do you guys have any suggestion for the kind of terminal I should use? I'we searched around, but haven't found a good solution yet.

What have you guys done to solve this problem?
drventure:
A cheap solution would be to pick up 3 3.5mm extension cables like this.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203478806&listingid=32534428



Then, drill a hole to accommodate the female end, glue it in place and you're done.

Cleaner might be to pick up a panel, or panel mount jacks. I'd think Radio shack should have stuff like that, but it won't be as readily available as a plain extension cable.
ammitz:
Thought about doing it just with cables, but I dont know how good a fixation I can make and how durable it would be. And I dont think I could make it look clean


--- Quote from: drventure on September 16, 2009, 08:07:48 am ---Cleaner might be to pick up a panel, or panel mount jacks. I'd think Radio shack should have stuff like that, but it won't be as readily available as a plain extension cable.

--- End quote ---

I'll look at radio shack and see what they have. Thanx for that advice

UPDATE.

Been at www.datapro.net where I found this:


or this



And then I would just have to make my own faceplate to mount the female jack in. This would take a little work, but would look nice and clean in the end.
Dr Zero:
Put a cup on the back and run the patch cable down to the MOBO and plug it in some heat shrink tubing on the one end and no one can tell.





http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/SWT-500/SPEAKER-TERMINALS-GOLD-BANANA-JACKS/-/1.html

Several kinds here

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=terminal+cup&x=13&y=14

Blanka:
As they are actually line-outs, I would make them with the normal RCA terminals:

Use a mini-jack cable to connect them, and cut off one plug to solder it on the terminal.
Using speaker terminals is very confusing.
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