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capt steve

My wife is driving me crazy! She goes into the bath room to get ready
for the day, and turns the tv in the bedroom up till she can hear it
over the running water, toothbrush, hairdryer, etc. The sound level
in the bedroom is just short of nuclear.
I went to RShack and bought a wall speaker and did the climbing
through the attic to wire it in. Only problem is that it only works
from an amplified output. The TV and the Satelite box only have Audio
out and Digital sound out. Apparently neither of these are
amplified.

She wants something that looks nice. Is there any sort of small amp
that I could use to still utilize this speaker? Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Captsteve
 
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Homer J Simpson

capt steve said:
My wife is driving me crazy! She goes into the bath room to get ready
for the day, and turns the tv in the bedroom up till she can hear it
over the running water, toothbrush, hairdryer, etc. The sound level
in the bedroom is just short of nuclear.
I went to RShack and bought a wall speaker and did the climbing
through the attic to wire it in. Only problem is that it only works
from an amplified output. The TV and the Satelite box only have Audio
out and Digital sound out. Apparently neither of these are
amplified.

She wants something that looks nice. Is there any sort of small amp
that I could use to still utilize this speaker? Any other ideas?

Remote headphones?

But if you want an amp, Radio Shack is one place but I would buy an
amplified speaker set for a computer.
 
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Chris

My wife is driving me crazy! She goes into the bath room to get ready
for the day, and turns the tv in the bedroom up till she can hear it
over the running water, toothbrush, hairdryer, etc. The sound level
in the bedroom is just short of nuclear.
I went to RShack and bought a wall speaker and did the climbing
through the attic to wire it in. Only problem is that it only works
from an amplified output. The TV and the Satelite box only have Audio
out and Digital sound out. Apparently neither of these are
amplified.

She wants something that looks nice. Is there any sort of small amp
that I could use to still utilize this speaker? Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Captsteve

Hi, CaptSteve. Any other ideas? Hmmmn. (Bwa-hahaha ;-)

Homer's idea about using a junker external PC amplified speaker set is
a good one. It accepts line input level, and can output a couple of
watts into 8 ohm speakers. Just clip off the speaker wires if they're
hardwired into the amp, and splice in the wires for your speaker(s).
If it looks good enough for the desktop, it should look good enough
for Her Royal Highness. And if you scrounge around, it shouldn't cost
you anything, either. They've been making those in volume since the
mid-90s, so there are literally millions of unused small amps in
closets and garages waiting to be liberated.

Somehow, though, I get the feeling it won't be good enough for HRH.
It never is.

Condolences
Chris
 
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Charlie Siegrist

Circa 3 May 2007 03:25:45 -0700 recorded as
<[email protected]> looks like Chris

Now, there's a very unusual problem!
Homer's idea about using a junker external PC amplified speaker set is
a good one. It accepts line input level, and can output a couple of
watts into 8 ohm speakers. Just clip off the speaker wires if they're
hardwired into the amp, and splice in the wires for your speaker(s).
If it looks good enough for the desktop, it should look good enough
for Her Royal Highness.

Just a note on that. If it looks good enough for the desktop, and looks
good enough for the wife, just use the PC speakers in the bathroom and
forget the wiring fiasco inferred by splicing an amp to the speaker already
installed. Buy RCA cables (I'm assuming RCA connectors, or suitable
adapters, are relevant to the situation) long enough to pull through where
the single pair (I'm assuming here) has been laid, and connect as needed.
Plug the AC for the speakers into a bathroom outlet, and run the speaker
cable and extensions far enough to get the connection made. The added
benefit is that you will have volume control for the speakers *in the
bathroom*, independent of the main unit volume control.

Oh by the way, did you know that couples with televisions in their bedrooms
have considerably less sex than otherwise?
 
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jasen

My wife is driving me crazy! She goes into the bath room to get ready
for the day, and turns the tv in the bedroom up till she can hear it
over the running water, toothbrush, hairdryer, etc. The sound level
in the bedroom is just short of nuclear.
I went to RShack and bought a wall speaker and did the climbing
through the attic to wire it in. Only problem is that it only works
from an amplified output. The TV and the Satelite box only have Audio
out and Digital sound out. Apparently neither of these are
amplified.
She wants something that looks nice.

Typical woman! :^)
Is there any sort of small amp that I could use to still utilize this speaker?
Any other ideas?

Small amps that look nice and don't have speakers already are kind of hard to find.
could you hide the amp and use an L-Pad (a volume control designeed to be wired into
the speaker cable) - it's probably more convenient having the voliume control in
the bathroom, and this would give you that.

Bye.
Jasen
 
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amdx

Oh by the way, did you know that couples with televisions in their
bedrooms
have considerably less sex than otherwise?
That was only true before Johnny Carson left the air.
 
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