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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car
stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
Grinder wrote:
Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? If the car stereo has line level inputs (about 1 volt), your PC should be a good match. If you want to test, you could try a portable music player, as that would represent what your PC would be like as a signal source. Paul |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:39 -0500, Grinder
wrote: Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? It's quite do-able, no preamp should be needed... that's if as Paul mentioned your amp has a line level input, which if it has any input at all would tend to be the line level type. |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
On 5/25/2010 2:37 PM, kony wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:39 -0500, Grinder wrote: Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? It's quite do-able, no preamp should be needed... that's if as Paul mentioned your amp has a line level input, which if it has any input at all would tend to be the line level type. I don't have the amp in front of me, but it's been explained that it has "standard" preamp inputs, whatever that means. Crutchfield has said that it's not possible unless the amp has an aux in specifically designed for that purpose. |
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On Tue, 25 May 2010 18:33:32 -0500, Grinder
wrote: On 5/25/2010 2:37 PM, kony wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:39 -0500, Grinder wrote: Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? It's quite do-able, no preamp should be needed... that's if as Paul mentioned your amp has a line level input, which if it has any input at all would tend to be the line level type. I don't have the amp in front of me, but it's been explained that it has "standard" preamp inputs, whatever that means. Crutchfield has said that it's not possible unless the amp has an aux in specifically designed for that purpose. That should work, what they are either misunderstanding or not conveying is that you wouldn't want to hook the speaker output from an in-dash receiver, or similary the speaker output from a computer speaker amplifer, into the car amp "preamp input". Taking the PC's sound card or integrated audio line out and connecting to the car amp preamp input should be fine providing you don't have one of those rare motherboards that has a speaker amp integrated onto it... I've seen a few several years ago but it is very rare today and any that had such a power amp chip on them had a jumper to pick between headphone or line-out and speaker out to drive passive speakers. Just remember that since the volume would be adjusted by the PC, you'd want to start with the volume set low and progressively raise it until you get the desired output volume from the amp. |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
"Grinder" wrote in message
... Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? You're going to need a very long cable! How far away from your PC do you intend to drive? |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:12:44 +0100, "GT" wrote:
"Grinder" wrote in message .. . Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? You're going to need a very long cable! How far away from your PC do you intend to drive? lol |
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PC Line-out to Car Stereo Amplifier
On 5/26/2010 8:12 AM, GT wrote:
wrote in message ... Is it completely insane to run a PC line out into the inputs of a car stereo amplifier, with some sort of pre-amp or attenuator? If no, what's a cheap way to do that with a minimum of crazy? You're going to need a very long cable! How far away from your PC do you intend to drive? I'll remain in the tri-state area. |
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