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garnerb350:
Does the orginal cab have speakers grills, or can you see the speaker?
bkenobi:
The easiest thing to do is just gut a pair of PC speakers so you can connect the arcade speakers up to that amp. Technically this is a bad choice since the impedance won't likely match (PC speakers are mostly 4 ohm and arcade speakers are 6 or 8 ohm). However, in practice you will probably be fine. The worst that will likely happen is that the amp/speakers won't last as long as it would have with correctly matched impedance. I did this with my Atari cab and it's still running fine. Sounds good too!
garnerb350:
When I constructed mine, I gutted the pc speakers and hooked the amp up to two 5.25 car speakers...They came with speaker grills and the color of the speakers were different than the color scheme i desired...so i went to wall-mart and went to the craft section and bought some black felt to hide the ugly speakers......( placed felt between the speaker grill and the speaker)...
If I could have done it all over then...I probley would have used the grills with the felt and just mounted my pc speakers behind it...
gaffner:
--- Quote from: bkenobi on June 22, 2009, 03:20:40 pm ---The easiest thing to do is just gut a pair of PC speakers so you can connect the arcade speakers up to that amp. Technically this is a bad choice since the impedance won't likely match (PC speakers are mostly 4 ohm and arcade speakers are 6 or 8 ohm). However, in practice you will probably be fine. The worst that will likely happen is that the amp/speakers won't last as long as it would have with correctly matched impedance. I did this with my Atari cab and it's still running fine. Sounds good too!
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I'll have to look at my arcade machine tonight, but this seems like a cheap, easy way to go. I don't typically play games really loud, so I don't need anything big to make this work.
Thanks!
bkenobi:
My speakers are ~4-5" arcade grade speakers (meaning they are cheap IMO). Anyway, the amp in the 2.1 mid quality PC speakers I have push plenty of volume out of these speakers. Add the fact that they are mounted in a small enclosure (behind the marquee) and pointed straight at your head, they sound just fine! I suppose if you use super cheapo speakers, your results might vary...dunno.
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