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EvilTwin:
Hey all,
I'm planning for my first cabinet- just getting all the pieces and everything together. So far, so good!

Anyway, I'm trying to decide what to do about my audio. My TV I'm using has speakers mounted on the sides:

http://resources.jvc.com/images/front/av-27d201_front.jpg

They sound really good while watching tv, and I've hooked them up with an audio cable to my computer and they sound decent enough-I'm not an expert on how they'll sound in my arcade cab, however. Also, removing them if I don't use them might be a pain in the you-know-what.

Any suggestions? That means that the sound would be coming from either sides of my screen of my cab. Is that weird enough that I should try and mount car speakers or something above?

Thanks!

foleykoontz:
Maybe I'm not understanding this right but wouldn't that mean the speakers would be playing behind the glass or are you not going to have glass? Either way it seems better to just buy some $30 computer speakers and hide them in the speaker spots on your cabinet.

TOK:
If you're going to put a bezel in front of it when you're done, it might mess the sound up or rattle when you turn it up. Even though most old games are rather limited in the sounds they produce, I always love punching them up with a subwoofer.

I'd go with separate PC speakers and sub. You can get a set thats good enough for 30 or 40 bucks.

severdhed:
if you are going to cover the tv with glass or plexi, then use other speakers

Bluedeath:
Just remove speakers from your tv and move the into your cab using a longer cable.

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