Anyone good with electronics or audio systems?

[Dan]

I recently spliced off one of the speaker cables (in parallel) from the sound system that I scrounged for free onto a cheap speaker that I got for 5 bucks and mounted in the kitchen. I wanted to have music in the living room and kitchen which are separated.

Anyways, I have two problems: The speaker in the kitchen is fairly quiet, I am guessing because it has slightly higher resistance than the main speaker, and also it is only hooked up to the right channel right now. Does anybody know of a cheap way to build an amplifier for the kitchen speaker (running off 120V AC)? And is there a way to combine the stereo sound into mono without also combining the main speakers in the living room?

 

[Link]

In theory you could splice from the second speaker and connect the splice to the kitchen speaker where the other splice joins. Its prob gonna give you some ugly bleed between the main speakers though.

I think the best thing you could do is buy a cheap arse mini stereo with an aux in, and mash up a cable direct from your original sound source. Unless your orig has an aux out, then make the cable so that it plugs direct into the speaker ports on your source. If its bell wire, just plug it in twisted to your normal speakers, if its plugs, you'll need a splittter. Then connect it up to the appropriate plug for your aux in on the mini stereo. It'll cost more than the way your trying to do it, but you'll get the volume you want (within reason and mini stereos capability) and should stop the main speakers from ****ing with each other.

 

[Dan]

How exactly does aux out work, will it shut off the main speaker output and just use the aux out or can you use both at the same time?

 

[Link]

It depends on how your sound source is built. If its made to use an amp as well as its own speakers, it'll work, if not, it'll shut the speakers off. Thats assuming your source has an aux out, some don't.