Speakers - slightly off topic

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, 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.
>

I use one of these:

http://www.behringer.com/UB1002/index.cfm?lang=ENG

it's relativly cheap, ($75 list) quiet and makes adding and removing audio 
sources easy... I do have have 1/4 to rca adapters in most the the inputs.

joelja

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