Two Soundcards One set of Speakers

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Zimmerru

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I have 2 computers and was wondering if it is possible to run 2 soundcards out to one set of speakers. Like is there any adverse affects to doing this?
 
you'll need to get something like
http://www.sfcable.com/store/10a3-033hf.html
that

just a 3.5mm stereo y-splitter with two male one female. one cable will connect a left and right speaker, you'll need three for 5.1 (with the center channel using a mono y-splitter)

any adverse effect? could be but i'm not audio expert
 
ninja fetus said:
you'll need to get something like
http://www.sfcable.com/store/10a3-033hf.html
that

just a 3.5mm stereo y-splitter with two male one female. one cable will connect a left and right speaker, you'll need three for 5.1 (with the center channel using a mono y-splitter)

any adverse effect? could be but i'm not audio expert
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Yeah i got all that, just wasnt sure if the signals would cross and cause an overload or something like that. Thanks :)
 
hmm maybe, if you're pumpin some mad beats through both soundcards on full volume on every setting you may run into speaker/amp problems
 
one way around having any problems i think would be to solder a diode on to each positive connection, but i've no idea about what size diode's to use
 
I worked on something like this a while back (an idea I had)

Each coupler would need a switch to switch between the 2 cables from the soundcards. Each set (2 channel, there's 3 of these for a 5.1 system) would need a switch to change the signal going through to the speakers to the other soundcard.

Currently I don't have time to look but try a search like this one.
 
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