Need some help hooking up speakers

swingline

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I have some old Altec Lansing PC speakers (two speakers and a sub) laying around that I'd like to attempt and hook up to my plasma before I put them on craigslist.

Problem is, I'm not sure how. This is what I'm dealing with:

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Any ideas?
 
If I'm not mistaken the only audio out your TV has is optical. Meaning somehow you have to take that and feed it into the S/PDIF in on your speakers.

Is there a converter for this that can be purchased? I see no other way of getting the two to communicate, as your TV doesn't appear to have any analog out.

EDIT: How much for the speakers? I know you mentioned Craigslist, but I happen to have a need for a 2.1 set... :lol: :p
 
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Optical to copper spdif adapters used to exist. I also see nothing for the sub, unless that's the first picture.
 
EDIT: Because- swing is a ninja. :yes:

And yesh, it looks like that cable is the general idea of what you'd need. However, is that end a 3.5mm? Cause it kinda' looks more like a 3.5mm connector than a coaxial which is what you'd need for the S/PDIF.
 
I'm not sure a mere cable will be enough. Optical is essentially light. Like fiber optics. Coaxial is a traditional signal over copper wire. Kinda' hard to splice the two. :p

Quick search found this on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Optical-Toslink-Coaxial-Converter/dp/B000I98ZQY

That seems more logical. You need something that can covert the optical signal (essentially light) into an electronic signal over the copper wires for the S/PDIF in on the speakers. That little gadget looks to be what you'd need.

Read up on it a bit more, then maybe see if anybody local has one. Or place the order from Amazon.
 
I understand how optical/coax works - I figured everyone ran into this problem with PC speakers on a TV. I'm not going to mess with that convertor because of the external power requirement.

Couldn't I just use this and run them through the RCA jacks?

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swingline said:
I understand how optical/coax works - I figured everyone ran into this problem with PC speakers on a TV. I'm not going to mess with that convertor because of the external power requirement.

Couldn't I just use this and run them through the RCA jacks?

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The problem there is that all the RCA jacks in that tv are inputs, not outputs.

Are you just testing them before sale? Because if you are, a 3.5mm cable to your phone will do just as good.
 
I honestly see no way to use those on your TV without an adapter. Maybe somebody else here will know of something though. :)
 
DigitalDemon said:
Are you just testing them before sale? Because if you are, a 3.5mm cable to your phone will do just as good.
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We have an extra TV and I was going use these if I could. I know they work because they were on an old Dell that just gave up the ghost.

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I do not see any analog out.
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Redeemed said:
I honestly see no way to use those on your TV without an adapter. Maybe somebody else here will know of something though. :)
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I'll see if I can get some beer money for them.
 
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