running cordless, or separate is simplest with the least worries. Now, go wireless keyboard and you can sit on your favorite chair and compute away any media.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Roger Bachelder wrote: > Hello Spiro, > > This is most likely what i will do. Unless i can save on some nice cordless > speakers. > Thank you for the information. > > Take care, > > > Roger C Bachelder 3rd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Speaker wiring > > > > You know you could do this with any 3 position switch. > Attach the pos of the receiver to #1, both grounds to the speaker and > the computer amp output to #2. > But the signal out of the computer area must be amplified. Where is the > computer signal getting it's juice? Easiest would be if you had a separate > tiny amp, like some sonic impact tri-path jobby, separate for that signal. > Pick a tiny amp as the back channels are getting low power and you don't > want to have to hook up a vol control as well,. > > Once that is done, you can find a switch box on the market if you > don't want to rig one. > this is a common device called a speaker selecter. > It's made for the opposite direction, but can work for this just fine. > They are made to take a single input and send it to multiple speakers one > or two at a time. > If there are no powered devices in it, it is totally passive, you can wire > it backwards. > Instead of putting multiple speaker taps on it, you will put the multiple > inputs on it. > Instead of it having one input, it will have one speaker. It is a very > simple reversal. > This reversal may make a unit with a built in passive vol control a bit > tricky, so stay away from that set of necessities. > > Do not! pick one that will allow for "both" if you want to be really safe. > Not knowing the rest of your system, amp selections, power supplies, > S.E.T. transformerless, push pull or whatever, you do not want to blend > the backsignal of the main system with the signal from the computer amp. > They might not blend well and the weaker, or least electronically safe > will not take it well in some cases. > So go for a simple a/b speaker switcher not a fancier > a/b/a-b. > An a/b/c is okay too. > This is why you want a 3 position light switch in the rigged version, > So that it is an "on off on" type configuration. > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Roger Bachelder wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I'm trying to figure out how to configure what seems to be a simple task. >> I've been working on the entertainment center the last few weeks. February >> 17 is coming up really quick, And Daytona is screaming race day scanner. > So >> here goes. I have my computer in a different room in which the > entertainment >> center is in. I would like to customize the wiring. When sitting in the >> room, i want to make the rear speakers able to receive signals from two >> different sources, but one at a time. Example, I would like to run a > speaker >> wire from my computer to the rear of the room. Then i would do the same > and >> run speaker wires from the receivers, rear right and left surround sound >> speakers. to the same point in the rear of the room. Now i would like to > buy >> some kind of adapter / converter in which i can switch from source to >> source. Two sources controlled by a simple switch . I figure that i can > put >> Daytona on through the receiver to the Bose 901 speakers. I would then >> switch the receiver to 2 channel. Now i would switch the adapter from TV > to >> Computer and now the rear speakers would get NASCAR Race day scanner. >> Can someone tell me What some thing like this would be called and where i >> could pick one of these nifty little gadgets up ? >> >> Thank you, >> Take care yawl. >> >> Roger C Bachelder 3rd >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:Bachelder3%40verizon.net> net >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
