Screwing Around With Speakers For Fun And Profit
I like music. My main computer is my mp3 player, assuming I’m within eight feet of it. Which is not often enough probably too often.
My speakers are, of course, always near my computer. But they don’t like music as much as I do. Being an ordinary inexpensive 2.1 setup (two weedy satellites and a “subwoofer”), they shares many common issues with the rest of their class - namely satellites that can’t manage any midrange whatsoever, and therefore outsource that job to the subwoofer - which is fine, as it gives the sub something to do other than failing miserably at playing true low bass. That is, once I forced midrange upon it by making a mountain out of NVMixer’s equalizer. This misplaced midrange has the slightly unfortunate side effect of making the subwoofer clearly locatable by ear, but isn’t a huge deal in itself.
In short, with both quality and quantity notably absent, and the subwoofer waving a Here I Am Playing You Some Nice Fuzzy Midrange flag, listening to music (aside from punk rock, of course) is hardly an inspiring experience.
So I had an opportunity open to me to spend a lot of money. Naturally, I didn’t.
Instead, I dragged two speakers from my basement. Aside from having several species of small furry dust animals gathered together on them, and a pretty good scratch on one, they were in good shape, and had standard RCA jacks on the back.
Unfortunately, as of yet, I’ve been unable to properly utilize these speakers. The closest I’ve come has been hooking them up through the headphone jack of a cheap 2.0 set of Yamaha PC speakers; this got sound out of one speaker at a time, possibly, but not necessarily, because of the mono cable I was using. However, I’ve only got one stereo cable, and the bloody Yamaha refuses to shut up when it’s used. It’s also entirely possible that my 3.5mm (1/8″) TRS to RCA cable is borked somehow.
If I have any luck, I’ll update this. Hopefully I’ll get somewhere tomorrow… err today.
