Speakers - slightly off topic

[Ron Siven]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 23:31 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Slightly off topic.  Ok, you've got several computers at your desk. 
> 
> One primary Linux desktop, one not-linux notebook, maybe one more. 
> And a CD player/radio.   Maybe an MP3 or Minidisk player.
> Notebook has crappy speakers, but that's the one used for listening to 
> internet radio, etc.   
> 
> Now, you could have 4 sets of powered speakers plus the CD player. Or
> you could find something to mix the 3 outputs together and run it to 
> a single set of speakers.   Or even use the AUX input on the CD player. 
> 
> But what could one use to do that?  Only thing I've come up with is
> this:
> http://www.music123.com/Rolls-MX42-RCA-Stereo-Mini-Mixer-i138112.music
> 
> and I'm not sure if that would work well with headset/speaker out
> level on multiple sound cards.   It's just a set of jacks with 10K
> pots in them, so if each pot is cranked all the way up, there's 
> basically no impedance between each sound card/device output. 
> 
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I have 2 machines using one set of speakers.  I just use a 1/8" stereo
to 1/8" stereo cable to go line-out to line-in on one of them to which
the speakers are connected.  Using that method, you'd have a daisy chain
of 4 machines and each machine in the chain would have to be up and
running in order to use the speakers, but no impedance worries.


~Ron