How to work with speakers directly? Is there any way to use this with speakers directly?
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You either need to use self powered speakers or plug into a receiver with speakers, which will provide the needed power for the speakers.
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You can use powered speakers but MAKE SURE YOU USE THE UNPOWERED MAIN OUTPUTS. If you don't you could blow your speakers. The powered outputs are the speakon cable outputs on the back. On the top right if the board you will see main out left and right. Those outputs are unpowered and able to work with powered speakers. You are safe to run powered speakers out if any output except for the speakon cable outputs on the back. You will need 1/4 inch cable...not xlr.
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Hi Eric I use powered speakers as i was told i couldnt mix powered with passive speakers. Though i have seen a link on youtube explaing how you can use both using a sound filter check it out i dont have the link. But i use powered speakers and powered bass bin. Sorry i couldnt help. Thanks from Barry.
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Yes, absolutely. This is what I use it for also. I believe without a dedicated soundboard this is a common problem and this is any easy fix.
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Is it seriously a real question? How can a speaker pair with another speaker. What would be the point of that?
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My monitors don't have speakers so I don't have a good answer for you. I use a different set of desktop speaks that run off a USB for power and Aux cable for sound.
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The vendor said this will not work with passive speakers (3/29/14) but that is not entirely correct. It may not work if you connect it directly to the speakers. But if you are feeding it to an amplifier (as you stated in your question), it will work because the amplifier will get the sound into your speakers. I've got a mobile DJ business and I have one of these in one of my equipment racks, where it feeds into a mixing console, and which then feeds through a BBE sound enhancer, and then onto an amplifier before it goes out to the speakers. Works fine.
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My speakers do not use the digital interface, but I am using 5.1 speakers. If your speakers use the digital interface, I don't see any reason why they would not work in 5.1.
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This unit is a pre amplifier and requires an amplifier to be connected to it. You would in turn connect your speakers to the amplifier. The only speakers that can be directly connected to this unit are powered speakers and you would connect them to the appropriate rca or Xlr line outputs.
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This is not meant for speaker-level use. In other words, you can't use this with speakers or amplifiers.
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Brian,I'm sorry no one replied to your question. I only just got this system myself last night. You could not just plug your speakers in, because the system uses a proprietary method of plugging the speaker wires into small jacks on the back very similar to telephone jacks. You could splice the open end of the speaker cables to your existing cables, though! Not an optimal choice, I know, but a choice, nonetheless.Good luck!
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you can use computer speakers. But you need a power source for the speakers and will have to turn them on and off as with a computer.
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I'm not sure I understand your question. I think you're asking can you use the monitor without the speakers, and I presume use some other speakers? The answer is yes. To to that, you would simply not plug in the audio cable from the computer to the monitor.
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I use my on my desktop. It was easy to install (plug it in) and the sound is good but I do not know what other things the speakers can work on. Sorry.
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Yes you can. I use it with my desktop because the monitor I have did not have speakers. You have to use an available USB port and make sure that USB sound device drivers are installed. This speaker can be loud. It was well worth it.
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You might be able to get this working, by attaching the 3.5mm to the microphone jack on your computer. However, most computer are not configured to treat the microphone jack as "pass-through", because the feedback when using an actual microphone would be bad.So, you will need to make sure that you have some software/hardware on your computer that allows you to play sound directly from your microphone jack to your speakers.
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When I plugged my speaker in the computer found new hardware and installed what was needed for it to work. I hope this helped.