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Commonwealth
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I want to splice stereo speakers into a headphone jack to plug into my laptop - will I be able to splice both speakers into the same jack?

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The speakers look similar enough to those, and I want to be able to place them around my room and have them plug into my laptop via a headphone jack.

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I'm unsure if I'll be able to splice both speakers (4 wires in total, - and + for each). Will I have to solder them together and then splice into the jack?
Mar 8 2010 11:37AM
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Holte
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The problem is that your headphone jack only outputs about .5W of power, and your speakers probably require 30-40W. Unless your speakers are amplified (meaning powered with a wall plug, for instance), a headphone jack won't provide enough power to hear any audio out of the speakers.

Theoretically, if your speakers are amplified, you could splice all your left positive wires onto your left positive headphone jack wires (and left negative onto left negative, and right positive onto right positive, etc...).
Mar 8 2010 3:32PM
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Holte
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Actually, assuming you have a CD/cassette player console like the one in your picture, you could easily connect your laptop to the console by connecting a headphone to RCA cable from your laptop to the RCA input on the console. Then just keep the speakers connected to the console and you'll be good to go.
Mar 8 2010 3:36PM
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Commonwealth
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Hmm...interesting. That didn't even occur to me - thanks for pointing it out. I was going to take just the speakers, but I will definitely take your recommendation into consideration.


Thanks again for the help.
Mar 8 2010 3:45PM
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