On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 23:31 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote: > Slightly off topic. Ok, you've got several computers at your desk. > > One primary Linux desktop, one not-linux notebook, maybe one more. > And a CD player/radio. Maybe an MP3 or Minidisk player. > Notebook has crappy speakers, but that's the one used for listening to > internet radio, etc. > > Now, you could have 4 sets of powered speakers plus the CD player. Or > you could find something to mix the 3 outputs together and run it to > a single set of speakers. Or even use the AUX input on the CD player. > > But what could one use to do that? Only thing I've come up with is > this: > http://www.music123.com/Rolls-MX42-RCA-Stereo-Mini-Mixer-i138112.music > > and I'm not sure if that would work well with headset/speaker out > level on multiple sound cards. It's just a set of jacks with 10K > pots in them, so if each pot is cranked all the way up, there's > basically no impedance between each sound card/device output. > > -- > ============================================================================ > Neal Rhodes MNOP Ltd (770) 972-5430 > President 4737 Habersham Ridge fax: (770) 978-4741 > Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30047 > I have 2 machines using one set of speakers. I just use a 1/8" stereo to 1/8" stereo cable to go line-out to line-in on one of them to which the speakers are connected. Using that method, you'd have a daisy chain of 4 machines and each machine in the chain would have to be up and running in order to use the speakers, but no impedance worries. ~Ron
