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Original Message
Name: JJ
Date: February 1, 2003 at 20:23:02 Pacific
Subject: Hook Computer Speakers to TV
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: P4 1.6GHZ
Comment:

Hello

I was wondering is there an adaptor that will connect Computer Speakers to a TV. I know you can hook your computer to a stereo or the tv speakers using a y cable. But is there an adaptor if I want to connect my computer speakers up to the TV.

Thanks


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Response Number 1
Name: Shane
Date: February 1, 2003 at 21:11:20 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Yup not to long ago i got one of those from radio shack.. only cost like 9 bucks cdn for a 3 foot cord.. i suggest a longer one though. They work good.


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Response Number 2
Name: possum
Date: February 3, 2003 at 16:19:20 Pacific
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You can connect the speakers through the TV`s headphone socket if it has one, but if it is a mono TV you will get sound only through the left channel. In this case you need to make the connection through a stereo synthesizer.


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Response Number 3
Name: Thump
Date: March 19, 2003 at 10:16:13 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

I'm also trying to do the same thing. My TV has no headphone socket, but it has a red and white RCA output.

Here's what I did:

A/ Connect a KOSS "1/4 inch stereo jack to 2 RCA plugs" into TV audio outputs (red and white)

B/ Connect a Radio Shack "1/8 Phone Jack to 1/4 Mono Phone Plug" into the 1/4 end of the KOSS wire

C/ Connect my computer speaker's 1/4 (male) plug into the 1/4 Radio Shack plug (female)

This works, but I only get sound out of the left speaker. I think the problem is that the Radio Shack adpater (274-325D) is mono.

Does anyone know if I can find a similar adapter in stereo?


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Response Number 4
Name: ThumperStrauss
Date: March 19, 2003 at 14:45:02 Pacific
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Hi. Me again. To answer my own question, I just found a stereo version of the adapter at Radio Shack.


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