dcrevier@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dan Crevier) (02/01/89)
What is the cheapest and easiest way to hook an ST to an amp? The monitor's speaker is very weak and I would like to get better quality sound. Is the Tweety board worth getting? I know monitor master has sound output, but I don't want to pay that much just to hook up speakers when I wouldn't be using the composite output. Thanks Dan Crevier (dcrevier@jarthur.claremont.edu)
glk2017@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu (02/04/89)
The easiest way I can think of (not the prettiest) for mono output is to unscrew your monitor and attach wires to the speaker inside the monitor. This has the advantage of you controlling the intensity from the monitor. Otherwise check the pinouts and tap into the ST or the monitor cable. Ernest C. Spieu! Escape, Dammit!
trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) (02/05/89)
In article <106@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dcrevier@jarthur.UUCP (Dan Crevier) writes: >What is the cheapest and easiest way to hook an ST to an amp? The monitor's >speaker is very weak and I would like to get better quality sound. Is the One of the first things that I did when I bought my ST was to hook it into a stereo sound system. I went into the monitor and just pulled the signal right off of the speaker leads (leaving the internal speaker still connected, since I don't always turn the stereo on). right outside of the monitor I split the wire into two RCA plugs, one of which goes immediately into the left channel of the stereo, the other going into a $30 reverb box I picked up at Radio Shack (and from that into the right channel of the stereo). By properly setting the amount of reverb and depth, you can get some incredible sound out of the ST. This is actually the same setup I used to use on the 8 bit Ataris to get the effect of shots echoing off into the distance while playing Star Raiders...the effect is even more dramatic with all the digitized sound that games like Death Sword utilize. -Todd Burkey
clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) (02/08/89)
The easiest way to hook up an ST to an amp is to add an RCA jack to the computer itself. Messing with the monitor worries me ALOT, and I love to hack my hardware. Just get a female RCA port from Radio Shack. Clip a wire to the audio pin on the monitor port (inside the computer, the rear of the pins stick out of the monitor port.....clip to here). Solder the other end of this wire to the INSIDE of the RCA port. Take a second wire. Hook one end to the computer's shielding, the other to the OUTSIDE of the RCA port. That's all there is to it! However, on the 520st (or at least mine), doing this cuts out the monitor's speaker. It does not seem to do this on the 1040. =cf= Chris Freemesser BITNET: %clf3678@RITVAXB
Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (02/08/89)
A friend of mine installed an RCA audio jack on the back of his monitor, connecting the jack to the "incoming" side of the volume control.. This allows him to turn the monitor down, while still feeding the audio to the jack.. one of these days, I'm going to get around to doing this to MY monitor too..! BobR