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Thread: How can I wire headphones to a speaker system? |
    
New member Username: Meridius
Post Number: 1
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 09:57 pm: |
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I have a Honda Goldwing with a good CD/am/fm stereo system in it, but I would like to wire the system to a set of headphones or a female headphone jack.
I have a helmet with headphones built in and the jack, etc...but the stereo does not have a headphone plug.
I can get to the speakers and wires easily, but cannot find a product that will wire up and leave me with a useable plug.
Isn't there anything out there that wires up to a set of speaker wires from a stereo...so that it would be possible to pluc in a set of headphones?
If there is, it is evading me.
(I am talking about the normal everyday headphone link. The small one...not the one from Dad's old system)
Can anyone help?
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Gold Member Username: Illuminator
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Post Number: 2181
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005 - 02:42 am: |
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quote:I can get to the speakers and wires easily, but cannot find a product that will wire up and leave me with a useable plug.
Most loudspeaker outputs put out a great deal more amount of power than headphones can handle. Headphones typically can't handle more than 500mW without frying. The stereo in your motorcycle probably puts out at least 7w of sound per channel.
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New member Username: Meridius
Post Number: 2
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2005 - 10:16 pm: |
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I had forgotten about this message. I went to Radio Shack and bought a simple female connector and wired it to the speaker system.
It works fine. I plug the headphones in my helmet into the connector and no problem.
The Radio Shack employee said the same thing, that it would blow the headphones....but I've been using them for weeks now with no problems at all.
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Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 2224
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Monday, November 14, 2005 - 06:21 pm: |
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Must be a low wattage stereo. |
Bronze Member Username: Caldera
Post Number: 12
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 05:28 am: |
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Back in the antedeluvian days, the only way to hook up a set of headphones was through an adapter that was wired to the speaker outs. This was the 60s, and that's how I hooked up my Koss Pro 4s. I read that the MacIntosh preamp from this period used a similar technique, taking the feed from the power amp to supply the headphone jack. Of course, there was circuitry to cut down the power of the signal.
Somewhere, somebody must know how to do this. |
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