Sorry if this is the wrong section. Anyways I'm turning my cab into a mame cab and I'd like to use these speakers on the PC. How would I do it?(Could I wire them into a headphone jack each and then use a headphone splitter?)
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Sorry if this is the wrong section. Anyways I'm turning my cab into a mame cab and I'd like to use these speakers on the PC. How would I do it?(Could I wire them into a headphone jack each and then use a headphone splitter?)
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A standard headphone jack has 3 wires: ground, left signal and right signal.
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So what you want to do is take one wire from each pair, tie them together and tie them to the ground. The leftover wire for the left speaker connect to the left terminal/wire of the jack, the leftover right wire to the right terminal/wire.
If you connect them bot to separate jack you will get mono sound, plus you will put a larger load on the amplifier. (4 ohms instead of 8).
2 of those 4 are connected together. Use a multimeter and you can figure out which 2. Or take a drive down to radio shack... they also sell plugs there.I stripped a pair of headphones and there were 4 really tiny wires... Where can I get a normal plug?
I stripped a pair of headphones and there were 4 really tiny wires... Where can I get a normal plug?
Sorry if this is the wrong section. Anyways I'm turning my cab into a mame cab and I'd like to use these speakers on the PC. How would I do it?(Could I wire them into a headphone jack each and then use a headphone splitter?)
Chances are the headphone out on your computer doesn't have the balls to run real speakers, so you'll need a powered audio amp, not just a headphone jack...
here is what i do for my mame builds
i buy these
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0220684
take them all the way appart and desolder the wire from the speakers
cut a couple of sections of an old bic pen (to use as stand off's)
mount the amp borad in the front of the cab (so easy axcess to sound controll knob from inside the coin door )
then run the speaker wires to the original speakers in the cab (usually have to extend the wires)
then plug it all in to the pc and bam you have amplfied sound for 7$
again as stated without an amp you are not going to get any sound (at least not enough to really hear well)
you will either need to purchase an amp from one of the online retailers or scavange one out of some pc speakers like i do
buying the auido plug will do nothing for you at all
if you hook that up and then plug it into the output on your motherboard or sound card you will get sound no louder than a quief
Sorry if this is the wrong section. Anyways I'm turning my cab into a mame cab and I'd like to use these speakers on the PC. How would I do it?(Could I wire them into a headphone jack each and then use a headphone splitter?)
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Actually it worked fine, it does sound crappy but enough to listen to some music etc.