Audiophiles, I need help....Hooking up speakers with spring clips to comp

[TroubleMan]

Okay, I've hooked up home speakers with RCA connections to a computer before....no problem.

However, I was just given some nice, but old speakers. The only way they connect is 2-conductor bare speaker wire via spring clips. I personally have never seen a connector to bare wire to 1/8" (the connection on the back of a sound card). Do you think Radio Shack has these? Or do I have to go bare wire to RCA, and then to 1/8"?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Berserker]

1. Here is some help

http://www.fxsound.com/mp3connector/pages/support.php?vendor=0&subvendor=0&plus=0

There is alot of help on this site

[TroubleMan]

2. Those are RCA conncections....

I'm talking about spring clips, which look like this:




Usually with spring clips you put speaker wire right in there:




Now I'm wondering if anybody knows of an adapter that will go from the speaker wire into the 1/8" audio connection on my sound card, which looks like this:



I've looked on the net, but I haven't found anything. :shrug:

[Berserker]

3. I just called radioshack

they do have what you are looking for. You have to go from the speaker wire to a RCA and they do have and adapter.

[TroubleMan]

4. Thanks for the help.

I thought that's what I'd have to do...

You didn't have to call Radio Shack though....I was going there this afternoon, but I appreciate it.

[Berserker]

5. I was interested

in finding this out also. I did not think it was possible to hook up home speakers to a computer.

[ConsAreLiars]

6. If the speakers need to be run thru an amplifier

you will probably need to run the computer signal thru an amp, using the line-in (maybe RCA jacks, maybe bare wire). If the speakers have their own power supply the direct-from-computer link will work, but if the computer doesn't put out enough power to drive the speaker magnets you may only get a very weak, if any, sound from them. If so, the amplifier is needed.