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home audio with computer speakers question

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apukareem

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hello, i have recently came upon a set of bose speakers,
not sure on the model, but was wondering if there is a way i can incorporate both the bose speakers with my cyber acoustics a3640 computer speakers.
i found that a receiver would be able to join both speakers, however, is it possible to plug the receiver to my computer and play my computer's music through the receiver to both the cyber acoustic speakers along with the bose?
would there be any possibilty of frying or damaging either set of computers or my sound card?
any help would be appreciated
thanks
 
just buy a receiver and hook it up to your pc, then hook both sets of speakers up to the receiver. or if you want to leave the computer speakers in tact just get a headphone splitter and plug the receiver into one and the old speakers into the other

either way you will need a receiver for the bose speakers.
 
i was talking to a guy from best buy (which doesnt really mean he knows anything) but, he said that they work on different frequencies or watts or something and that its possible for them to fry either the computer speakers, bose speakers, or the receiver
is there any merit to that statement?
or only when i crank the system to full
 
has anyone tried this before and have any experience in hooking up computer speakers with home audio speakers through a receiver?
 
Well, according to cyber acoustics' site, the computer speakers you have are rated at 25watts. Amps now a days can eaisly pump 100watts into each channel, so there may be the chance of breaking the drivers in them.

Another thing to worry about, is volume matching. The bose speakers you picked up may be harder to drive then your cyber acoustics, or vice versa. That means there's a chance your cyber acoustics will be very loud, while the bose don't get loud at the same volume setting. Not sure if your receiver would have enough specific channel attenuation to solve this. You could always add some more impedence to one of the sets of speakers, but chances are you won't want to do that.

If you do go ahead and fiddle around with it, start at very low volumes. If you start hearing the computer speakers start to make mechanical type noises (clunks, bangs), you're past what the driver can do. My bet is the volume mismatch will be too much, but who knows, you may luck out.

~Hope this helps
 
The Best Buy guy is an idiot. Just get a 3.5mm stereo plug to RCA cord and you're set. Plug the 3.5mm into the sound card out and the RCAs into one of the reciever inputs (don't use the phono in) then hook up the speakers to the reciever. Don't expect too much from the BOSE speakers, in my opinion they're overpriced and underperforming.
 
Opps, forgot to say, if you go ahead and do this, you'll have to make it so that the computer speakers can actually plug into the receiver's terminals. That may require some sort of an adapter or something custom (depends on what you have access to).

Personally, I think its too much hassle to connect the computer speakers too.
 
Fenris_Ulf said:
The Best Buy guy is an idiot. Just get a 3.5mm stereo plug to RCA cord and you're set. Plug the 3.5mm into the sound card out and the RCAs into one of the reciever inputs (don't use the phono in) then hook up the speakers to the reciever. Don't expect too much from the BOSE speakers, in my opinion they're overpriced and underperforming.
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I think the OP understands that, but is worried about using both the Bose speakers AND his current computer speakers from the same receiver. Or maybe i'm just confused myself. :p

What compslckr said would work, just splitting the signal right at the source (sound card), and having one goto the computer speakers, and the other goto the receiver.
The only thing is.... both sets of speakers will be playing the same thing...... and not quite sure if it would be better in any way. If you wanted to play the same music in two rooms, that would be cool...... but if they are both setup right infront of you on your computer desk.... well, you get the point. ^_^
 
what i was originally intending to do was to play my computer's music through both the computer speakers and bose speakers, and if possible my tv through the same speakers.
i just dont want to spend $300 for a receiver just to blow everything up.
but i think it is worth a try if i keep the volumes low and go very slowly.
also, i think i would have a lot less chance to blow the computer speakers, if i split right from the comp sound card
thanks a lot for ur guys' help
 
my advice would be to hook your recieve up to the sound card (most likely need to buy an adapter, I just solder the two types of cords together, but most sound freaks freak out about that) then you should be able to hook your pc speakers up to the pre-amp (low power, most likely rca's) signal comming out of the reciever. this way you could ajust your pc speakers volume to match that of the bose speakers. And depending on your reciever you should be able to ajust the volume on the reciever and it would stay balanced.
 
one other question i have is, from the computer speaker cable, they came with an adapter to turn it to the red/white audio wire, where would i put that in on the receiver?
arent all the red/white ports on the receiver for inputs? therefore sound would not come out?
 
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