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connectors, and a sound card (or motherboard) with three sockets?Hi, I have some speakers for my pc but the 3 cables that connect to my
sound
card were cut and so don't have jacks on the end. I have 3 stereo jacks,
how
do I solder each cable to the jack? Is it easy?
Thanks for your help
Daniel
Interpreting a bit here, but you presumably have two speakers, without
connect into the sound card for front L+R,rear L+R and centre, so I presumeInterpreting a bit here, but you presumably have two speakers, without
connectors, and a sound card (or motherboard) with three sockets?
One of the sockets for the sound is the speaker out - the others are
microphone in and line in. If you can identify them, ignore them for now.
Get yourself a stereo 3.5mm plug from an electronics shop and the braid
from
both speaker cables are joined together on the outer metal of the plug.
The
inner wire from the speakers goes to one of the two other lugs on the
connector. If your speaker wires are twin-flex, rather than a small coax
as
I just described, then it's even easier, just one wire from each speaker
joins together and goes to the outer of the plug, then connect the other
wire as above.
You may want to get someone handy with a soldering iron to do the
soldering
for you coz they can be a bitch if you aren't used to it.
Cheers.
Ken
Hi thanks for your reply, its a 5.1 speaker kit, that has 3 leads that
motherboard is it?"Ken Taylor" <ken123@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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Interpreting a bit here, but you presumably have two speakers, without
connectors, and a sound card (or motherboard) with three sockets?
One of the sockets for the sound is the speaker out - the others are
microphone in and line in. If you can identify them, ignore them for
now.
Get yourself a stereo 3.5mm plug from an electronics shop and the braid
from
both speaker cables are joined together on the outer metal of the plug.
The
inner wire from the speakers goes to one of the two other lugs on the
connector. If your speaker wires are twin-flex, rather than a small coax
as
I just described, then it's even easier, just one wire from each speaker
joins together and goes to the outer of the plug, then connect the other
wire as above.
You may want to get someone handy with a soldering iron to do the
soldering
for you coz they can be a bitch if you aren't used to it.
Cheers.
Ken
Hi thanks for your reply, its a 5.1 speaker kit, that has 3 leads that
connect into the sound card for front L+R,rear L+R and centre, so I
presume
two are stereo jacks and the other mono? If so, will a stereo jack work
anyway? Sorry should have mentioned this earlier
Daniel
Sorry, not familiar with the way that's being done. What sort of PC or
sockets one for front L+R, one for rear L+R, and one for centre, so wouldHi thanks for your reply, its a 5.1 speaker kit, that has 3 leads that
connect into the sound card for front L+R,rear L+R and centre, so I
presume
two are stereo jacks and the other mono? If so, will a stereo jack work
anyway? Sorry should have mentioned this earlier
Daniel
Sorry, not familiar with the way that's being done. What sort of PC or
motherboard is it?
Ken
Abit NF7-S, its an nForce2 chipset with 5.1 integrated sound, so it has 3
the 'centre' connector, as you correctly surmised, is mono. Should be easy"Ken Taylor" <ken123@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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Hi thanks for your reply, its a 5.1 speaker kit, that has 3 leads that
connect into the sound card for front L+R,rear L+R and centre, so I
presume
two are stereo jacks and the other mono? If so, will a stereo jack
work
anyway? Sorry should have mentioned this earlier
Daniel
Sorry, not familiar with the way that's being done. What sort of PC or
motherboard is it?
Ken
Abit NF7-S, its an nForce2 chipset with 5.1 integrated sound, so it has 3
sockets one for front L+R, one for rear L+R, and one for centre, so would
the front and rear be stereo jacks to enable the left channel and right
channel? May be il just cut my losses and buy speakers with optical input
lol
Daniel
Aha. Then yes, each one is a stereo 3.5mm plug, as I described above. Except