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Taven

Taven

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Taven said:
Ok, so I won some car speakers the other night, and I don't want them in my car. So i was wondering is there anyway to use them as computer speakers?
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Ku-sama said:
yup, not too hard, i dont have enough time to look up the peice right now, but gimme about a half an hour
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Do you remember the site of this piece you were talking about? I really need it. I've been looking for days for it and didn't want to bother you about it but i can't find anything, please help! ha.
 
This is a perfect example of why we have the Private Message system here. Send him a PM and he is sure to get it.
 
Ku-sama said:
unfortunatly, i cannot find that damn wire.... but look around at Radioshack for shelf systems that have the same speaker size as the ones you have, then get this cable
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...&cp=2032058.2032228.2032247&parentPage=family

and connect it to the back of your computer and the Input of the Reciever.
unscrew the speakers in the speaker boxes, then unwire them, wire yours up, then screw them in, if you have any questions, let me know
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So you're patching the sound card through a reciever (and subsequent amp) and replacing 2 speakers from the already assembeled system with the car speakers?

This is kinda dangerous..... Car speakers are usually 4 OHM, a lot of recievers are rated for 8 OHM. You better be checking the capabilities of your reciever before just throwing speakers on it.
 
Yes, the car speakers are 4 ohm. But what's this mean? I have a 300 watt power amp, that's 2 ohm, would that work?
 
is it a mono amp or a bridged 2 channel amp? If it's a mono amp then you won't get stereo sound out of it. If it's bridged then it's 2 channels at 4 ohms each. It's not a good idea to use speakers outside of the rated impedience of the amp, altho most amps will handle a range of impediences and not a single value. So check your amp and see if you can find the actual impedience range.
 
All it says is 300watts/2 ohms
RMS
Minumum Amplifier Load 2 (horseshoe thing, i think it means ohms, not sure)lol
Speaker Jacks Parallelled
I think it's bridged but that's just me talking
 
yes the horseshoe thing is the ohm symbol.

I have good news and bad news.

Good news is you can plug your speaker in and it will work as long as you keep the amp power low.

The bad news is it sounds like a mono amp, which means no stereo sound. If you want to do this you're realy going to need a home theater amp or find a way to convert AC to DC and run a car amp.
 
I have always found computer speakers to be anemic sounding. Even the high end ones. I don't think you can ever replace the sound of quality home theater with computer speakers. Now for the money you'd end up spending on the amp, you could probably get a HT reciever (which are usuall 8 OHM, but rated to handle 4 OHM), hook up those speakers and have the room to expand your system however you wanted. Save up another $200 or so and get a 12" sub....another $100 for a set of book shelf surrounds, maby another $100 to $200 for a QUALITY center channel and you have yourself something that will outclass computer speakers. That and you can patch it into your DVD player and TV and enjoy movies in 5.1.

So you can spend the $30 on a pair of computer speakers. You can also spend a little more and start building something nice.
 
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