ltpitt
Newbie level 4
Hi all,
I have decided to join this board and discuss about my current little project after I've read this amazing thread:
This place seems to be filled with adventurers and experienced, kind and caring people.
Impossible to resist
In my case I have a kind of small audio need: I own an old computer monitor from the past (Commodore 1804) but unfortunately it is mono.
I would like to mod it and put inside a small amplifier and two speakers (at the moment the speaker inside, if this can be helpful, is: 3", 1 watt, 16 ohm and imho very weak and just... poor sound. Zero definition, only medium frequencies, etc).
I would assume, given space and not incredible budget, that getting amazing results is out of my scope but having respectable sound should be something achievable.
As very nice to have I would like to have a volume control knob and a headphones jack that will disconnect normal speaker output when I connect headphones.
I am far from an expert when it comes to electronics so in order not to destroy my beloved 1084 I'd prefer building something that is totally separated from it except, if possible safely, take the needed voltage to let the amplifier / speakers work.
In a dream scenario I'd be able to use the same headphone input / volume knob of the tv but it sounds very scary to me and the risk of ruining the monitor scares me more than a bit.
I thought about disassembling an old pc speaker set like Logitech S-120 (or countless others) and put it in the monitor...
In the past I had very nice experience with small Visaton speakers for example but on the amplifier side I have total ignorance I have found this one for example (that unfortunately does not have headphones out):
And choose the best speaker for it among those two:
https://www.visaton.de/sites/default/files/dd_product/SC 5_9 ND.pdf
Do you have any suggestion / hints / tips / does /donts for me?
Thanks for your help, time and patience.
I have decided to join this board and discuss about my current little project after I've read this amazing thread:
This place seems to be filled with adventurers and experienced, kind and caring people.
Impossible to resist
In my case I have a kind of small audio need: I own an old computer monitor from the past (Commodore 1804) but unfortunately it is mono.
I would like to mod it and put inside a small amplifier and two speakers (at the moment the speaker inside, if this can be helpful, is: 3", 1 watt, 16 ohm and imho very weak and just... poor sound. Zero definition, only medium frequencies, etc).
I would assume, given space and not incredible budget, that getting amazing results is out of my scope but having respectable sound should be something achievable.
As very nice to have I would like to have a volume control knob and a headphones jack that will disconnect normal speaker output when I connect headphones.
I am far from an expert when it comes to electronics so in order not to destroy my beloved 1084 I'd prefer building something that is totally separated from it except, if possible safely, take the needed voltage to let the amplifier / speakers work.
In a dream scenario I'd be able to use the same headphone input / volume knob of the tv but it sounds very scary to me and the risk of ruining the monitor scares me more than a bit.
I thought about disassembling an old pc speaker set like Logitech S-120 (or countless others) and put it in the monitor...
In the past I had very nice experience with small Visaton speakers for example but on the amplifier side I have total ignorance I have found this one for example (that unfortunately does not have headphones out):
DollaTek PAM8406 Audioversterker-board, digitaal vermogensversterker, 5 W + 5 W immersie-gouden stereoversterker 2,0 tweekanaals mini-klasse D-DC5V versterken de doe-het-zelf-schakelmodule : Amazon.nl: Elektronica
DollaTek PAM8406 Audioversterker-board, digitaal vermogensversterker, 5 W + 5 W immersie-gouden stereoversterker 2,0 tweekanaals mini-klasse D-DC5V versterken de doe-het-zelf-schakelmodule : Amazon.nl: Elektronica
www.amazon.nl
And choose the best speaker for it among those two:
https://www.visaton.de/sites/default/files/dd_product/SC 5_9 ND.pdf
Do you have any suggestion / hints / tips / does /donts for me?
Thanks for your help, time and patience.
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