Audio connection

Lenny

Sorry about posting this here, but because the Audio/Visual board doesn't seem to get much traffic yet...

You know the way you can connect your speakers to your hi-fi, by the red+white cables
Well, I only have 1 hi-fi to use, and what I want to do is get a like double connection so I can have my decks and speakers off the pc connected up at the same time
and if possible, have both of them able to output sound into the hi-fi together
anyone know if there is such a cable/connector?
http://www.peats.ie/cgi-bin/shop/db...path=10x153x329
Thats kinda what I am looking at, but I don't need 2 jacks at the end, I only need 1
I need the red+white cable at the end to connect up to the mixer

Anyone know what I am talking about, or want me to post a picture.. anyone know if there such a connection?

Thanks.

Lump

Ok, for getting the four connectors, you need to get some one in an audio visual shop to make the following wire, each about one inch long. "Two RCA sockets to One RCA Plug" then when you get that, you will be able to do what you want to do.


John

Lenny

Hmm, confuses me

Thanks though Lump, I'll check around in town during the week about that one.

Kali

i dont think i quite understood what you need...

but if its to simply connect both your pc speakers and your hi-fi to your computer:

get a 3.5mm splitter (3.5mm plug -> 2x3.5mm sockets) and a 3.5mm -> 2xRCA (phono plugs) cable.
Stick the splitter into the back of the pc along with your 3.5mm speaker cable and the RCA cable to your hifi.

Lenny

Here's quick pic I drew Kali, tell me if you still don't understand..

Its a ****ty paint job in a few mins, hehe

bombidol

see audio visual for how to do this in English

BomB

Lenny

BomB, I could draw something if you wanted

Would yea mind drawing up the idea you have for me please, I'm a lil' bit iffy on what you exzactly mean..

Lump

Just go in to peats, and ask for what I wrote, 2 * RCA Dual sockets to Single RCA plug.

For a start bomb, they are not called jacks, the proper name is RCA or composite connections,


John

Lump

OK, enough of all this, you need 2 * these:

http://www.peats.ie/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=4479&type=6&path=21x157x4480


John

Krusty_Clown

Stoopid question, but are these bi-directional?
OJ seems to need a two-into-one as opposed to a splitter...

Just askin'!

Lenny

That seem to be what I am looking for alright Lump, thanks

Lump

No worries.

John

bombidol

i know what they are called, but theres no point in complicating matters, i was just using common terms, 99% of people on the street would call it a jack.

BomB

Lenny

I got two of those connections you told me to get Lump, when I have them on the back, and when I plug in the mixer, it out puts grand, but when I put in the connection for the pc to the hi-fi it kinda ****s up the mixers music and sometimes kills it

I think its the mixer audio wire though..

Inspector Gadget

If both inputs are going into your stereo together (which they appear to be, especially considering the adaptors you're using) one is partially cancelling out the other - a concept known as destructive interference. You really need two inputs on your Hifi, or to be able to switch between them.

The adaptors that were suggested above are intended to take a stereo input and "downmix" it (although that's not the right word) to a mono channel. The fact that the left and right channels on a stereo recording are so similar (and in phase - it would take too long to explain this if you don't know what it means already) means that destructive interference doesn't really come into it. However, put two very different signals in, and you get, as the Americans would say, "garbage" out.

Gadget
P.S.> I've seen quite a number of PC Sound Cards with "noisy" line outs, even when they're not supposed to be active - this probably doesn't help your cause either.

Lenny

Thanks for that Inspector Gadget
The hi-fi is quite old, looks like its time to get a new one.. I'll look for one that allows two imputs into the hi-fi

Snowbat

Why not feed the PC audio into a spare mixer input?

Alternatively, build or buy a switchbox:
http://www.peats.ie/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?id=4473&type=6

Lump

Hmmmmmm, does it happen if you turn the power to the PC off? I dont think that it would matter how many connections you have connected. Is the out put from the mixer powered or amplified? I presume that you are taking it out of the line out connection on the mixer. I dont see how it could cause a problem. I have often had many devices running in to My Hi-Fi.


john