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it has a XLR to 3.5mm adapter that I use which works fine on my deck. it doesnt have a standard 3.5 output, and it isnt hooked up to a speaker. let me see if i read the model wrong really quick Ah my bad, it was the XL-V161. IDK why i put in a K
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You are using the headphone output with a trs to xlr cable to plug into a mixer? If so, the cable is your problem. TRS jacks can be used either for unbalanced stereo or balanced mono. Not interoperable. The thing on the xlr end is expecting the latter, while the cd player is outputting the former. A solution is going to depend on what the mixer offers wrt connecting unbalanced sources.
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Oct 20, 2024 07:55
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oh its not a cable, its like a single plug with one end that fits into the 1/4 inch jack and one that has a 3.5mm female hole for the 3.5mm headphones. hmmm, by mixer do you mean the internals of the device? admittedly im a huge newb with this stuff.
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Oct 20, 2024 18:06
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i just realized i didnt have an XLR to begin with, i mixed up XLR with 1/4 ignoire this question i hosed everything up in the description lol
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Oct 20, 2024 18:59
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Mixer was me guessing what you could mean by 'deck' as a thing that takes xlr. So never mind that.
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Oct 20, 2024 19:13
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yeah sorry for confusing you man my bad entirely
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Oct 20, 2024 21:22
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LurchinTard posted:yeah sorry for confusing you man my bad entirely Can you explain how you are trying to use it and what you’re connecting it to? A picture could be helpful
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Oct 21, 2024 00:42
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admittedly its a moot point, i did a bunch of testing with and without receiver, and it turns out all my stuff sounds washed out, super far away, or heavily static, whether going through the receiver or not. im back at point one
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Oct 21, 2024 01:17
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LurchinTard posted:admittedly its a moot point, i did a bunch of testing with and without receiver, and it turns out all my stuff sounds washed out, super far away, or heavily static, whether going through the receiver or not. im back at point one So you are connecting directly to the headphone out in the front? What headphones are you using? And have you tried connecting it to the receiver through the RCA outputs at the back? Saukkis fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Oct 21, 2024 |
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Oct 21, 2024 02:00
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yeah thats what i discovered. RCA->receiver from my CD deck made it sound even worse, staticy, far away. tape deck sounded worse on there. Tape deck on its own sounded pretty rough too. I'm using those HyperX cloud PC gaming headphones. they work well enough on my walkman and such. mainly i say moot point cause i think all my shits glogged, receiver, deck, CD player. its all stuff from the 80s-90s, goodwill, random people giving it away etc and we went through a move so i think just the passage of time, hurricane power outages, etc may have hosed em up for good cause i dont remember the receiver sounding this bad when i got it in high school. nor do I remember the CD player sounding this rough either.
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Oct 21, 2024 04:07
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LurchinTard posted:yeah thats what i discovered. RCA->receiver from my CD deck made it sound even worse, staticy, far away. tape deck sounded worse on there. Tape deck on its own sounded pretty rough too. If the cd player and tape deck both have the same issue, I would say it’s something with the receiver. Or even just the cabling you’re using to connect to the receiver. Were you testing with the same rca cable? And it’s probably not that the whole receiver is junk, but just the volume or balance pot needs to be cleaned.
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Oct 21, 2024 11:31
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I tested them independent of the receiver as well though and htey still sounded really rough. Same RCA cable yeah. I have a few others I think I can try though before I throw the baby out with the bathwater. How would I go about cleaning the volume or balance pot?
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Oct 22, 2024 02:37
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LurchinTard posted:I tested them independent of the receiver as well though and htey still sounded really rough. If you’re using the same RCA cable, it’s possible that’s the issue, or it could be something else really simple to fix about how you have it set up. Some pics might help. But to clean pots you get a can of deoxit (or if you don’t care about the equipment as much and need something asap, you can get a can of generic contact cleaner at an auto parts store), open up the case enough to expose the pot, and get the straw in a hole or find a way to spray poo poo inside while manipulating the pot. You can clean your rca and headphone jacks with it too. Does the volume sound crackly when you adjust it?
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Oct 22, 2024 16:15
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This is a stereo receiver, not one that could accidentally be set to some sort of surround or fake surround mode, right?
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I have a science project to replace some old house intercom speakers (and its head unit) with more conventional ones. Disregarding all the fun and games with driving them, is there a category of speaker that should have a fairly balanced frequency profile that is no thicker than 3 and a half inches? We're talking about literally 2x4 lumber here for the walls and that kind of makes a limit if I want to use the existing furniture for it. Speaking of that, the old speakers have something like a 7.25" diameter. The mounts are basically screw holes in a square around it 136mm apart. I suspect I won't be able to find a perfect fit and will instead have to go with something a little bit smaller and adapt it for the existing holes. Or I try the comedy option thing where I slap some solid drive actuators on foam panels.
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Nov 12, 2024 07:38
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Not my area of expertise but a 6-6.5" plus the surround will probably fit. The depth will probably limit your choice more than anything because I think 5" is standard. There's several options on Crutchfield though. [had to use tinyurl because of brackets in the link]
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I have a science project to replace some old house intercom speakers (and its head unit) with more conventional ones. Disregarding all the fun and games with driving them, is there a category of speaker that should have a fairly balanced frequency profile that is no thicker than 3 and a half inches? We're talking about literally 2x4 lumber here for the walls and that kind of makes a limit if I want to use the existing furniture for it. Speaking of that, the old speakers have something like a 7.25" diameter. The mounts are basically screw holes in a square around it 136mm apart. JBL has an extensive line of in-wall/in-ceiling stuff at all sizes and price points. A lot of it is quite good and also inexpensive. There’s stuff for dropping into light enclosures, etc and for retrofitting old systems and also stuff that you may have to cut a box for.
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I'd reassuring to see they have stuff with sufficient depth. Do they have the individual pieces? I would want to try to mount them inside the old, retro enclosures. Doing something like that Parts Express C-Note is not out of the question if I can get stuff to fit that way. I did figure out the actuator speakers with foam board are really overinflated so that's just out.
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I'm looking for a simple way to combine my computer's audio with a different device's audio (ipad, laptop) and have that feed through to a 3.5" jack for headphones. This is all to have a way to listen to & manage discord/videos/music on a separate device so that I don't have to break games when alt-tabbing, and to prevent that audio from being picked up by recording software on my computer. I know that I need to look for a mixer of some type, but I'm lost when it comes to audio stuff. When looking around I did see this device https://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-g8 that seems to do what I want, the size and dual USB input appeals to me, but $150 seems expensive for what I'd like to accomplish.
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[edit: Sorry, just re-read and saw the part about separate physical devices. If you use something like this on your PC, you don't need to leverage separate devices if you don't want to.] If you already have all the inputs and outputs you need, check out this software. It's a virtual mixer. https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm
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Actuarial Fables posted:I'm looking for a simple way to combine my computer's audio with a different device's audio (ipad, laptop) and have that feed through to a 3.5" jack for headphones I like to do this, and found the easiest way without loving about with extra software or small mixers is to buy a pair of powered speakers that have an aux in connection and a headphone jack too. If you like your existing speakers, this ain’t the way mine.
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Actuarial Fables posted:I'm looking for a simple way to combine my computer's audio with a different device's audio (ipad, laptop) and have that feed through to a 3.5" jack for headphones. This is all to have a way to listen to & manage discord/videos/music on a separate device so that I don't have to break games when alt-tabbing, and to prevent that audio from being picked up by recording software on my computer. I know that I need to look for a mixer of some type, but I'm lost when it comes to audio stuff. I had a very similar use case (wanted to listen to music from my PC with headphones on, but also hear Teams notifications from my work computer in the same headphones) and bought a Behringer mixer for like $50 that had both analog and USB ins. That model doesn't exist anymore, but similar ones look to be going for $60 or so right now. The sales guys at Sweetwater are pretty good about finding products to fit a use case, so if you contact them and lay out what inputs and outputs you need, they should be able to recommend something that will work.
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I use voicemeeter banana to run a Chromecast Audio into a line in that I can pipe out to my speakers. NOTE: Discord-hosted image links (like this one) expire approximately 24hrs after they were copied from Discord. LRADIKAL fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Nov 20, 2024 |
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My mom wants a portable bluetooth speaker that "doesn't look like a spaceship". My brother wants to go half on a "Bose Soundlink Revovle II" or something, but last time I checked (like 20 years ago, admittedly...), Bose was overpriced junk. We're in the like sub-$200 price point (this is not beosound A5 territory here). Anything of value out there? All the same junk from the same factory in different colored plastic?
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The portability limits the available materials so they survive outdoors. Maybe Harman Kardon Luna or Sonos Roam 2.
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I want my Android phone to go loud as gently caress when I get home (location or WiFi SSID) so I don't miss texts from my family, but then I want it to go silent after midnight so they don't wake me up. Is there an app for this? I don't want to root my phone.
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Android app thread
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This is a weird request... I have a bathroom fan that has a bluetooth speaker inside of it. It's pretty weak though and doesn't sound very good. I'd like to replace it, but here's the catch. I have it wired into a wall switch so I can turn it on and off, and I'd like to keep that feature. Which means I'm looking for a bluetooth speaker that DOES NOT have a battery, which has been pretty tough so far. It needs to be powered by micro usb hopefully, but I can probably change that if needed.
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Is there a simple way to connect my record player to both a wired set of active speakers and a Bluetooth transmitter? I am not looking to output to both at once, I just want an easy way to switch between the two that doesn't involve unplugging stuff.
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Mikey Purp posted:Is there a simple way to connect my record player to both a wired set of active speakers and a Bluetooth transmitter? I am not looking to output to both at once, I just want an easy way to switch between the two that doesn't involve unplugging stuff. Look up RCA switch boxes on Amazon
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I've been having a problem using my Thinkpad T480s (Windows 11) with speakers. When I plug in an unconnected wire to the 3.5mm port, it turns the volume down automatically, which is fine. When I plug in headphones or most speakers, it works okay. But when I plug in some speakers using a 3.5mm to RCA cable, the laptop acts as if the cable isn't connected to anything and turns the volume down to mute automatically. This also happens when I plug the laptop via a 3.5mm to RCA cable into my amplifier. The speakers work fine. Not only have I used them with other laptops with no issue, but if I force my laptop's volume up, as in turning it up faster than the laptop can turn it down, sound plays out of the speakers perfectly. TL;DR my laptop doesn't recognize speakers as being plugged into the 3.5mm port if the signal is going to RCA.
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I think your laptop is expecting the impedance it would get from a pair of headphones and may be shutting it off because it's not seeing it? I'd try updating your Lenovo audio driver , the realtek one or whatever it is from their driver website, and check the bios settings to see if there's anything relevant that sticks out to you. Otherwise, your best alternative is getting an inexpensive USB DAC with RCA out, which will sound better anyways. Line level output into RCA is a different output level than Headphone out anyways. This is just one example, there are others that will be cheaper and a lot that are many times more expensive https://www.amazon.com/PS100-Multifunctional-Converter-Optical-Digital-Analog/dp/B0CDWHG7YF/
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How do I test my parents' old subwoofer Wharferdale PowerCube 12+ (I believe it's this) the next time I visit them so they're not hauling a dead subwoofer as they are hopefully moving within a year? It produces... volume, but it feels quite insignificant to what it was before. The cabling seemed correct, crossover both in subwoofer and the AVR didn't seem to be the cause... Any signal sweeps on youtube or something I should be looking at? Specific Netflix film scenes? But it just generally feels like the audio in that room lacks oomph compared to the past. And that room isn't gigantic by all means. gently caress I feel like I get better results out of my tiny genelec monitors and subwoofer in my small room.
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If you're talking about having an AVR this assumes it's an active sub. Cabling is good but has anyone accidentally flicked the gain knob on the sub whilst dusting or something? Maybe the crossover knob?
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I was going through some stuff in storage at my mom's house and came across the old stereo receiver and 5 disc cd changer and speakers that we had in the late 90s. I decided to take them and set them up and I've been blown away by how good it sounds. I been really enjoying going through my old cd booklet and listening to all the stuff I used to. I bought a cheap $13 bluetooth adapter for the receiver so I can stream music from my tablet and it sounds so bad compared to listening to the same song on a cd. Is this something that a more expensive bluetooth adapter would fix? Or is bluetooth just not great no matter what? This has given me sort of a crisis because I've been listening to music through bluetooth exclusively for the past 10+ years and listening to my old cds on my dad's old stereo is so good I think I have just been missing out.
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bigperm posted:I was going through some stuff in storage at my mom's house and came across the old stereo receiver and 5 disc cd changer and speakers that we had in the late 90s. I decided to take them and set them up and I've been blown away by how good it sounds. I been really enjoying going through my old cd booklet and listening to all the stuff I used to. You need to check which audio codecs the adapter speaks and what cabling the Bluetooth receiver uses. If you have apple devices you need to find something that supports AAC, if you use android devices AptX HD better if Lossless. The wiring method is also important, 3,5mm jack or RCA end up with a conversion in the cheap Bluetooth adapter, toslink is digital to digital so there is zero quality loss from the adapter to stereo. Can you provide a make/model on the old stereo or a photo of the rear so we can say which options you have?
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SlowBloke posted:You need to check which audio codecs the adapter speaks and what cabling the Bluetooth receiver uses. If you have apple devices you need to find something that supports AAC, if you use android devices AptX HD better if Lossless. The wiring method is also important, 3,5mm jack or RCA end up with a conversion in the cheap Bluetooth adapter, toslink is digital to digital so there is zero quality loss from the adapter to stereo. It's a Pioneer SX-205. No digital inputs on it. It looks like the bluetooth adapter only supports SBC. I think that's my problem. The main reason I even want to stream is to watch movies on my tablet really loud lol. I guess I will look for a better bluetooth adapter.
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bigperm posted:It's a Pioneer SX-205. No digital inputs on it. It looks like the bluetooth adapter only supports SBC. I think that's my problem. The main reason I even want to stream is to watch movies on my tablet really loud lol. I guess I will look for a better bluetooth adapter. What’s your budget? A $99 Wiim Mini should solve all of your wireless streaming problems and more but it might be slight overkill for you. But on the upside, it’s a solid and high quality piece from a company with a customer relations dept that should give you years of reliable use and if you ever decide to upgrade your setup/add new pieces/build another setup elsewhere it’s totally “endgame” for the vast majority of ppl.
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I ordered this one already. The Wiim looks cool but yeah I think it's overkill for me. EDIT: Thanks for the help. I used to ignore anything 'audiophile' but now I know that music can sound really good I feel like I'm discovering it all over again. bigperm fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Mar 7, 2025 |
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On a side tangent, it’s kind of a shame how after chromecast audio went away, nothing really filled up that “cheap but easy to use”, you have expensive parts or stuff that never cover all the bases.
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