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Halen5150

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27. April 2007 @ 14:03

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Hey Guys;

In recent discovering that I'm not using one of my old receivers anymore; I figured I'd trying getting some better sound out of my computer by hooking up to my computer and with some good speakers.

..Well; little did I know that my sound card doesn't have those analog RCA L/R connections; so I thought I was stumped.

..But; I figured that I could at least try and make a 1/8" mini stereo to analog RCA cable by cutting off the plug of an old set of headphones; and cutting off the plugs of an old L/R audio cable that came with an old vcr; and to my discovery it didn't work......?

Right now I'm at a loss as to what's going wrong. I thought that putting one of these together would be pretty self explanatory, right? Don't you just hook the stereo channels [i.e.; red wire to red wire; and white wire to white wire] together and it should work??

Let me know what I'm doing wrong please if anyone's made their own one of these cables.

All I really wanted to do was have a cable for hooking the receiver to pc.

Lastly; I don't want a "Why don't you just go to Radio Shack and buy a cable?" kind of reply; because I already know about that. I'm just seeing if I can save 2 bucks and learn something in the process..lol...

--Halen5150

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Indochine

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28. April 2007 @ 01:44

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Learn something about blowing up your sound card?

You need to connect the ground wires as well. If you just connect the red and the white wires to the L and R stereo inputs, you'll get no sound just a lot of hum.

The RCA cable has 2 leads, each with an inner wire and a shield. The shields need to be connected to the ground wire from the headphone jack. Cheap headphone cables often just have a kind of thin copper wire wrapped with cotton which is hard to solder to.

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Lastly; I don't want a "Why don't you just go to Radio Shack and buy a cable?" kind of reply

You're getting one all the same, Mr Picky.

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On m'a dit que je suis nul à l'oral, que je n'peux pas mieux faire !

Halen5150

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28. April 2007 @ 04:40

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hey thanx for the reply;) just what I was looking for!

p.s. srry if my post came off as being 'picky'; I just said that so that way nobody would try and not answer my question by just telling me to 'take the easy way out.'

Thanx; Appreciate It;
--Halen5150

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