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ALiEN509ALiEN509 Ohio
edited October 2003 in Hardware
Alright wasn't sure where to post this on the forums, I hope someone can help me. I have a sterio in my room which is rather nice but it has no RCA input connector. I'd like to somehow wire a rca input connector into the sterio so I can connect my vcrs audio out into the sterio and have some instance of surround sound. I am not quite sure how to go about this and I have looked on the net for the past few days. can anyone help ?

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  • AcidicDreamsAcidicDreams Oregon
    edited October 2003
    ummm I wouldn't crack the case on it but you can buy all sorts of adapters at places like radioshack or fry's electronics, RCA to 1/8" stereo etc...
  • ALiEN509ALiEN509 Ohio
    edited October 2003
    How am I suppose to hook an adaptor up to something which has no natural inputs at all. I've been thinking and reading. I think I can just take the + from the vcr use a switch to cutt the tape line when I need to and just connect the vcr + into the tapes line, ground the - on the rca and rout the sound in like that with a switch on the rca also.
  • AcidicDreamsAcidicDreams Oregon
    edited October 2003
    good luck :)
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    your stereo has no inputs whatsoever? none? no mic jack no nothing?
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    If your stereo has no inputs whatsoever, it's not as good as you think it is ;).
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    My definition of a nice stereo.

    * Amp/receiver (good stereos have separate tuner, pre-amp and power amp) weighs at least 60 lbs.
    * Has lots of input connections
    * Mfgr lists wattage as RMS per channel w/ THD (total harmonic distortion) @ rated max power (.08% or less is good) within a listed frequency range (ie; 20-20,000)

    Speakers are a subject all their own.

    OH God I love good stereos!
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2003
    Well here's one ghetto way of doing it....I'll assume it has a tape deck.

    So get one of those headphone out to tape things like you can use in a car to plug a portable cd-player into your cars tape deck and use it.

    It's completely harmless and will give you better sound quality then hacking any wires internally.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by kryyst
    Well here's one ghetto way of doing it....I'll assume it has a tape deck.

    So get one of those headphone out to tape things like you can use in a car to plug a portable cd-player into your cars tape deck and use it.

    It's completely harmless and will give you better sound quality then hacking any wires internally.

    Only limitation, especially on lower-end tape decks (I'm going to assume a stereo with no inputs fits this description) is that the tape deck heads themselves are crap, and usually only reproduce the tape signals from about 60hz to 12,000hz. This greatly reduces the over-all sound quality and worse, the dynamics are lost because the signal-to-noise is something like 50db (versus 80-90db rom VCRs and 90+db from cd/dvd). Typically, low end system speakers only reproduce the 80hz to 15,000hz frequencies (at best) anyway, so it's not really a big deal... but there are a few higher hz being lost using the tape versus hacking your way in...
  • ALiEN509ALiEN509 Ohio
    edited October 2003
    Well I went to open the sterio today to find where the tape deck wired into the board and solder a connection there from a female rca jack. I can't get it open.... I even contemplated melting the plastic in the back to get inside. I had already thought about the tape for headphone jack idea and thought why not just wire it straight to the board for the best quality like you guys already stated. I call it a good sterio because it really is, I mean it's not top of the line by any means but it dose play my cds and the radio just fine. IF the stupid company hadn't made the sterio casing impossible to get into I could have probably had a rca wired into the board there where the tape deck meets and maybe a capacitor on there to boost the rca signal and make a good ratio between the ampout and the signal in..... I am still contemplating what I am going to do and being able to see the tapedeck wire connecting to the board from outside the case really irritates me. *bothered*
  • ALiEN509ALiEN509 Ohio
    edited October 2003
    ok ok ok after much thought i've decided I am just gonna get ahold of someones used crappy little radio. One that like the tape deck dosen't work and what not, as long as the amp is still good in it. Then I'll wire the rca into it and not have to worry about messing up the sterio I have now. Hide the crappy little sterio and just kick it on with my good sterio off.
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited October 2003
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  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2003
    Sorry couldn't read your poost to busy staring at picture.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    hacking, you still looking for a setup? I thought you said you already bought the goods?... besides, hijacking someone else's thread isn't going to get you more responses. :rolleyes:
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Quit messing around and just buy this. :D

    Nakamichi Time Space 21 Home Theatre System

    Check it out here.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    Stop encouraging him mtgoat ;)
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    holy crap mtgoat. having said that, what do you think about these?

    or, if these aren't as good as i've heard, what would you recommend?

    i'm working on becoming an audiophile, i can't seem to find a good source to teach this stuff to myself
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by TheBaron
    i'm working on becoming an audiophile, i can't seem to find a good source to teach this stuff to myself

    I've had the same issue. There's some good pro audio forums out there, but they're all like $75,000 ahead of me in gross annual salary... hence, I can't tinker with all that expensive audiophile gear to hear what works best... PCs are sooo much cheaper a hobby ;).
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    yeah... but MAN would i love a set of those nakamichi's
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I think Onkyo makes excellent equipment but their speakers are not as good. I would love that system w/ some Bose.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    bose always sounds sort of flat to me. i LOVE my klipsch, i wish i could afford a set of quintet's
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited October 2003
    Guys im having a really bad problem, I am getting the Engergy S10.2 sub. I herd that I need a Y adapter to the subwoofer? Like one RCA to TWO RCA ports at the end for left and right?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by HackingGuru
    Guys im having a really bad problem, I am getting the Engergy S10.2 sub. I herd that I need a Y adapter to the subwoofer? Like one RCA to TWO RCA ports at the end for left and right?
    ??????????

    That doesn't sound right at all.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by TheBaron
    bose always sounds sort of flat to me. i LOVE my klipsch, i wish i could afford a set of quintet's
    While I like Klipsch a lot also among others I would have to say that you never heard 901's with the Dynamic Eq hooked up correctly. Mine sound anything but flat. The thing I love about 901's more than anything else and and it is their best feature, is that you can be anywhere in the room and you still get great stereo effect and separation (even if you are standing 2 feet in fron of one speaker which is unheard of with other speakers).
  • SwordsmanSwordsman
    edited October 2003
    Hack, most sub channels out of the pre-amp combine the signal into what is termed an LFE signal or "low frequency effect" signal. If yours does not, then a simple "Y" adapter from say Radio Shack or the like will do. That is if I understand your question correctly. IF, however, you're trying to split the signal out of the pre-amp to the sub and the satellites, then that is a completely different problem. Most current HI-FI subwoffers have both line level inputs and speaker level inputs where you run the speaker wires to the sub first then to the satellites. It has a filter to allow it to only produce frequencies ( often adjustable) up to a certain level. I think you'll have to wait until you actually have the subwoofer in front of you and then ask a more specific question based on what you've actually got.

    S!
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