Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources?

Hunteil · 04-18-2008, 07:44 AM

I couldn't find anything online about this and I really don't know much about the verbage either to ask.

Anywho I want to know if I can take a set of speakers and hook them up to 2 different things. Like to the TV and to the computer... So when the TV makes a noise you can hear it and when I'm playing a game you can hear it too at the same time even... I don't think they sell this idea on the market at all and I was thinking maybe i can connect the wires manually by splicing it my self... but I don't know if there will be massive noise or something?

ebackhus · 04-18-2008, 09:45 AM

Unless you install insulators along the wirepath then no, the signal will also be fed to the other source which could damage it.

ChemicalAfinity · 05-12-2008, 03:31 AM

assuming that you aernt using a 5.1 setup you could easily get a really cheap line level mixer (behringer make one for about 50AUD) and plug your two sources into it and then you can change what level each one is at.

yustr · 05-13-2008, 07:57 PM

You could get a RCA to mini-headphone cable and feed from the "Audio Out"of the TV to the "In" on your computer's sound card. Hook the speakers up to the computer. Then use the audio mixer in Windows to adjust the relative volumes.

craigwatanabe · 06-26-2008, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by yustr

You could get a RCA to mini-headphone cable and feed from the "Audio Out"of the TV to the "In" on your computer's sound card. Hook the speakers up to the computer. Then use the audio mixer in Windows to adjust the relative volumes.

That was brilliant

Hunteil · 06-26-2008, 05:49 AM

I found this... isen't this a two port head phone?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...L1D-_-34998489

yustr · 06-28-2008, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Hunteil

I found this... isen't this a two port head phone?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...L1D-_-34998489

No. It's a single ear headset with a microphone.

04-18-2008, 07:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
Hunteil Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 36 OS: XP	Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources? I couldn't find anything online about this and I really don't know much about the verbage either to ask. Anywho I want to know if I can take a set of speakers and hook them up to 2 different things. Like to the TV and to the computer... So when the TV makes a noise you can hear it and when I'm playing a game you can hear it too at the same time even... I don't think they sell this idea on the market at all and I was thinking maybe i can connect the wires manually by splicing it my self... but I don't know if there will be massive noise or something? __________________ -WEEEE!!!! and we never know when it ends...

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ebackhus Asst. Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 12,378 OS: WinXP Pro SP2b My System Blog Entries: 16	Re: Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources? Unless you install insulators along the wirepath then no, the signal will also be fed to the other source which could damage it. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.

05-12-2008, 03:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
ChemicalAfinity Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 24 OS: Apple Mac OS X 10.5; Windows Server 2003	Re: Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources? assuming that you aernt using a 5.1 setup you could easily get a really cheap line level mixer (behringer make one for about 50AUD) and plug your two sources into it and then you can change what level each one is at.

05-13-2008, 07:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
yustr Asst. Manager, The Conversation Pit Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Connecticut shore/California Desert Posts: 4,561 OS: PCLinuxOS, XP Pro My System	Re: Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources? You could get a RCA to mini-headphone cable and feed from the "Audio Out"of the TV to the "In" on your computer's sound card. Hook the speakers up to the computer. Then use the audio mixer in Windows to adjust the relative volumes. __________________ I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said. J. McMurtry

06-26-2008, 05:49 AM	#6 (permalink)
Hunteil Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 36 OS: XP	Re: Can you hook speakers up to 2 sources? I found this... isen't this a two port head phone? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...L1D-_-34998489 __________________ -WEEEE!!!! and we never know when it ends...