The Postmaster General
03-03-2008, 08:49 PM
Okay, this topic may go down faster than Lindsey Lohan at a casting call, but last night I found myself hooking up an old stereo in my kid's room and found myself wondering if anyone else finds themselves going nuts with doing whatever you can to get her hooked up. This is kind of rambling, but again, I just wonder if anyone is like me in this respect.
Pretty boring, maybe, but I am wondering if there's anyone like me, who has a huge container full of wires and assorted accessories. And you have every single wire and adapter except due to some strange bend in the fabric of space and time... You never seem to have the exact wire you need at any give moment. Oh, you are looking for a standard RCA plug, and you find a whole bunch of S-Video wires, but later you go back to look for a S-video wire and all you can find are RCA wires.
I think it's become less and less common for this to exist - optical audio is like what, one wire? And you are finding things standardized more and more by the day.
Since this old stereo had a blown left channel, I planned to just use just the right, keep it in mono (going in a 2 year old's room) - It's a great stereo that I plan to fix one day with a simple solder job and although its a dinosaur, the sound it gets is great, and I think it makes a perfect amp for my project rooms, patios, all the places I've used it for almost 20 years:
http://www.vintagetechnics.stereomanuals.com/images/sagx303catalog.jpg
So since the left channel is blown, I'll just hook both speakers up to the right channel, and the rear channels as usual. (BTW - my rear speakers for this set up are made by technics and shaped like balls - pretty cool, just trying to add understanding why I hold on to this cool ass setup...) Now since everything is hooked to the right, I need to hook the CD player and Phono by having both L and R channels going into the amps R channel, but in order to get the rear speakers to add anything (which is really nice since there's no front stereo) I need to also send in a stereo signal...
So from both the phono and CD player, I have this set up going...
Component > L / R wires going into a Y-adapter, plugged into amp, but also the Left channel split, with one going to the Y-adapter, one going into the L channel.
Yeah, lossy, but it's working.
Then back to why I brought up that box of wires... for this set up, I needed an RCA wire, 2 Y-adapter with one male and two females, and 1 Y-adapter with one female and two males (for the Left channel split)
Well, I found myself without a Y-adapter with the one male and two females, but I did have one with three male ends... So to get this to work, I end up using the 3 male Y-adapter, and to make the one female, I use a male S-video adapter to female RCA, then a S-video wire, and on the other end, another S-video adapter with a female RCA.
Good, that was boring even typing it.
Any other Dr. Frankenstereos out there, or am I the only cheap dinosaur bastard on these boards.
*Thread starters note: Only 100 tech snobs were harmed spiritually in the creation of this thread.
Pretty boring, maybe, but I am wondering if there's anyone like me, who has a huge container full of wires and assorted accessories. And you have every single wire and adapter except due to some strange bend in the fabric of space and time... You never seem to have the exact wire you need at any give moment. Oh, you are looking for a standard RCA plug, and you find a whole bunch of S-Video wires, but later you go back to look for a S-video wire and all you can find are RCA wires.
I think it's become less and less common for this to exist - optical audio is like what, one wire? And you are finding things standardized more and more by the day.
Since this old stereo had a blown left channel, I planned to just use just the right, keep it in mono (going in a 2 year old's room) - It's a great stereo that I plan to fix one day with a simple solder job and although its a dinosaur, the sound it gets is great, and I think it makes a perfect amp for my project rooms, patios, all the places I've used it for almost 20 years:
http://www.vintagetechnics.stereomanuals.com/images/sagx303catalog.jpg
So since the left channel is blown, I'll just hook both speakers up to the right channel, and the rear channels as usual. (BTW - my rear speakers for this set up are made by technics and shaped like balls - pretty cool, just trying to add understanding why I hold on to this cool ass setup...) Now since everything is hooked to the right, I need to hook the CD player and Phono by having both L and R channels going into the amps R channel, but in order to get the rear speakers to add anything (which is really nice since there's no front stereo) I need to also send in a stereo signal...
So from both the phono and CD player, I have this set up going...
Component > L / R wires going into a Y-adapter, plugged into amp, but also the Left channel split, with one going to the Y-adapter, one going into the L channel.
Yeah, lossy, but it's working.
Then back to why I brought up that box of wires... for this set up, I needed an RCA wire, 2 Y-adapter with one male and two females, and 1 Y-adapter with one female and two males (for the Left channel split)
Well, I found myself without a Y-adapter with the one male and two females, but I did have one with three male ends... So to get this to work, I end up using the 3 male Y-adapter, and to make the one female, I use a male S-video adapter to female RCA, then a S-video wire, and on the other end, another S-video adapter with a female RCA.
Good, that was boring even typing it.
Any other Dr. Frankenstereos out there, or am I the only cheap dinosaur bastard on these boards.
*Thread starters note: Only 100 tech snobs were harmed spiritually in the creation of this thread.