I'm still learning so please explain this......

System

Little_John wrote: »

hmmmm an interesting post.

So you decided to connect some PC speakers to a hifi becasue they are more compact? you do realise that you now have 2 things connected to the mains now just to listen to your hifi? and connecting your pc speakers to the back of the hifi isnt an option. the pc speakers will have an amplifier in them, the hifi also has an amp in there. the signal sent to the headphoens socket is unamplified, which is fine as the speakers do the amplification. but wire them to the back where the signal is amplified and then amplified again by the speakers then you will have problems.

Put your hifi speakers back on the hifi, plug the pc speakers back in the pc and buy the headphones for your missus so you don't have to put up with listening to take that. The headphones will connect to any headphone socket, there are 2 sizes of headphones socket the most common in hifi is 6.3mm where portable devices use 3.5mm dont worry you can buy convertors between the 2. I would buy somthing that uses 3.5 and if you need convert it to 6.3 as if your using a portable device you dont want to be useing a convertor. so yes she can just disconnect the transmiter from the hifi and connect it to the TV or to her ipod or you could connect them to your pc.

I will slowly go through your post and try to explain "why".

We now have new flat screen tv,placed on a new unit, however there is precious little space either side of the tv for the hifi speaker boxes, which we want each side of the tv. Despite long searches, we couldn't find any that we could afford, less than 5" wide each.

Then we spotted a pair which are under 3" each wide, 6"/7" tall, and we were told they would be fine for the hifi and we'd have to plug them into the headphone socket, which we did. There is a volume control on one of them, but my wife uses her remote. (They are not my discarded speakers from the comp).

Now you've given me food for thought though. If I site the old speakers under the tv and insert their leads where nature intended, the headphone socket will be free to accept whatever is required to send a signal to any wireless headphone?. Presumably whatever it is that is inserted into the headphone socket on the hifi, could be inserted into the tv socket as well?.

Flippin 'eck, this old geezer's mind is reaching saturation point, but providing we take it slowly, I will get it yet.

Donnie

I meant for post #5. Thanks anyway.

Donnie

I thought that you had already chucked your hi-fi speakers. Carry on.

System

Carry on..........as in what exactly?

Donnie

I meant that I had (wrongly) assumed that you had chucked your old speakers away.
So you should carry on regardless of my earlier post.

Enterprise_1701C

Just a suggestion here - you can get flat panel speakers you could hang on the wall that look like pictures. Can't recall where from, but I know they exist.

Hope you all stop bickering and this problem gets resolved peacefully!

System

I just did a google for flat panel hifi speakers and the first was £399, so they're out of the question , but thanks.

Donnie

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

Just a suggestion here - you can get flat panel speakers you could hang on the wall that look like pictures. Can't recall where from, but I know they exist.

Hope you all stop bickering and this problem gets resolved peacefully!

Bickering? In comes Mother Hen?

CTID_2

My my my, pop in to offer a bit of advice, and here's little Donnie getting all grouchy again, he is silly little tyke. Hi Donnie :wave:

Islandman, many PC speakers have a headphone socket in them, how about putting the sender for the WIFI phones in there. You would have to keep disconnecting it when the soaps aren't on.

The other solution is to buy a set of wifi headphones that use RCA (phono) connectors as well as 3.5mm jack. My cheapo pair has both.

Hope that helps, Happy New Year!