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Title: Hook up Mortal Kombat II speakers to an amp
Post by: leapinlew on June 12, 2011, 12:50:21 pm

Here I go again, another thing on this MKII cabinet I'm unsure about. In the pics you'll see a pic of the speakers I want to hook up. My questions:

1. Anyone have a link to an inexpensive amp that can power these speakers? I assume both speakers can run on the same amp? I'm not real familiar with speakers and I don't want to blow anything.
2. I would like a speaker knob right inside the coin door. Is that done on the amp? If not, how is the volume controlled?
3. Is there anything I can do to test these speakers first? They look good, but I don't know.
4. If you use a speaker setup like this, are you happy with the sound? I normally use a 2.1 speaker system and I like the bass.

I really only need volume control is Mame still has an issue with the volume on the MK games? I'm running an older version of Mame and MK1,2,3 all start at a much lower volume that needs to be turned up in the service menu, but the changes made don't stick between gaming sessions.

Title: Re: Hook up Mortal Kombat II speakers to an amp
Post by: Mrephunk on June 12, 2011, 02:37:20 pm

http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/articles/speakers.html (http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/articles/speakers.html)

You could try to do this and you will get 2.1 out of it, and it would be fairly inexpensive seeing as a cheap 2.1 setup can be bought on amazon for about $25 to $30