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Post by nonefornow on Jul 11, 2014 15:22:58 GMT
The speakers inside my monitor are showing (understandably) signs of age and as such the sound quality is becoming poor.
Is there a good alternative setup that would use external speakers? Would they need to have external power? What about cables?
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Post by hydrophilic on Jul 11, 2014 18:39:08 GMT
Generally yes, you would need external power. For headphones, I imagine you could get by without power. Also I've seen some portable speaker system designed for iPods, etc. It doesn't directly need external power, but it has batteries that need to be charged.
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Post by nonefornow on Jul 11, 2014 19:49:17 GMT
I quickly ran a search and seems that also matching the beige color of the C128 could be an issue. It looks as if color speakers is the new thing.
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Post by donno128 on Jul 12, 2014 1:08:57 GMT
My speakers are dead in my monitor, I just use regular computer speakers, don't even have them set up next to the computer, I don't need them to be balanced for stereo, no stereoSID here. But they are kind of the right cream color like most computers from the 80s and 90s. I just don't have space on the desk after the 128, 1571 and mouse, so actually have to set the monitor on top of the c128, it fits perfectly. I don't think it matters if they are powered, although the ones I use now are powered.
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Post by hydrophilic on Jul 13, 2014 7:42:41 GMT
I think you could only run one small speaker without power... never tried it myself, so who knows? Anyway, I almost found the perfect thing for Nonefornow. See here. Might be a bit too white for C64/128. The main problem is it is designed for Amiga, so you would have to make your own cable, but shouldn't be anything a guy with a knife couldn't hack together. This one looks closer to color of C64/128... oh yeah, these aren't up for sell... they were just posted for viewing back in 2009 ?
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Post by nonefornow on Jul 14, 2014 21:26:14 GMT
Powered speakers is what I was thinking myself. In any case now I have some ideas. The one with Commodore label would look cool though. Since they are for both PC and Amiga I should not have any major difficulties in making a cable. Let's see if I can find them for sale somewhere.
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Post by motrucker on Aug 25, 2015 18:20:46 GMT
The speakers inside my monitor are showing (understandably) signs of age and as such the sound quality is becoming poor. Is there a good alternative setup that would use external speakers? Would they need to have external power? What about cables? There are lots of good powered speakers that can used for almost any computer setup. I use something along these lines with my Amiga A2000 and PC, but they could just as easily be used on an eight bit system: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121048
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Post by hydrophilic on Aug 30, 2015 6:47:36 GMT
If you are not afraid to disassemble your monitor, you can replace your defective speakers from an old "boom box" or "clock radio" (but a clock/radio usually only has one speaker, so you if you want stereo, you might need to scavenge two clock/radios).
Going slightly off-topic, I always wondered how a C64/128 would sound if connected to a Bose Sound System... these are extremely over-priced clock/radio/CD players, but people say the deliver amazing sound quality... if you get one of these used (at a yard sale or eBay), I bet it would work very well... and most of them are "cream color" to match the color of a 64C/128 (but not the old bread-bin 64).
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Post by motrucker on Aug 31, 2015 21:40:21 GMT
If you are not afraid to disassemble your monitor, you can replace your defective speakers from an old "boom box" or "clock radio" (but a clock/radio usually only has one speaker, so you if you want stereo, you might need to scavenge two clock/radios). Going slightly off-topic, I always wondered how a C64/128 would sound if connected to a Bose Sound System... these are extremely over-priced clock/radio/CD players, but people say the deliver amazing sound quality... if you get one of these used (at a yard sale or eBay), I bet it would work very well... and most of them are "cream color" to match the color of a 64C/128 (but not the old bread-bin 64). I used to have my C-128 running through my Sony Stereo system. about 300 watts, with huge speakers. It was really a bit to much.
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Post by nonefornow on Sept 1, 2015 14:36:36 GMT
I now have Labtec external powered speakers plugged into the 1084S monitor. I took a Y RCA cable to split the sound signal from the C128 to the back of the 1084S into the audio plugs.
See here my setup at CommVEx.
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