Amplification:
Add WiFi streaming audio with voice or app control plus Bluetooth for $19 by connecting an Echo Dot via a 3.5mm to RCA cable.
Which model powered speakers?
Bluetooth Receiver $28.
Or WiFi Streaming with voice or app control + Bluetooth:
Consider a better wired connection instead of temperamental Bluetooth.
Basic automatic AT-LP60X $105 > 3.5mm aux cable > 3.5mm Aux input on the soundbar.
Or a better manual AT-LPW30TK $175 > RCA to 3.5mm cable > 3.5mm Aux input on the soundbar.
Or if you won't have the turntable near the TV and soundbar then either turntable > included audio cable > pair of powered speakers and they have Bluetooth for playing music from your phone, tablet or computer:
There are literal cables that do that. And no your equipment is generally causing that buzzing sound.
Edit. I read the comments. And i am most certain you need a Aux to RCA cable. Heres an amazon link to buy one. https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-Adapter-Subwoofer-Gold-Plated/dp/B01D5H8JW0/
I went ahead and ordered the UCA-202 along with these cables -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D5H8JW0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000068O17/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hopefully this is better than using VAC.
I may have that cable. If so, I’ll give that a try. Thanks.
update: just searched around and I don't own one of these cables. I do have a 1/8 inch to 2x RCA cable (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-Adapter-Subwoofer-Gold-Plated/dp/B01D5H8JW0) which will not work with my SOLO but could be connected directly to a pair of studio monitors with unbalanced RCA inputs. I don't want to buy the monitors until I'm absolutely sure it would work.
Thanks for the advice gonna go past my original budget, but i think i have the list of what i am buying down. Could ya double check if i may be missing anything or made an error?
Speakers: Wharfedale Diamond 225 Black
Amp: Aiyima A08 Pro with 36v 6A PS (For BT and incase i ever want a subwoofer)
PC to RCA Cable: 3.5mm to 2 Male RCA 4Ft (Connect PC to Amp)
Speaker Cable: 14 AWG 6ft Monoprice Banana Plug to Banana Plug 2 pack (Connect Speaker to amp)
Yeah it's crazy the little details we think are super important when getting into a hobby that seem to be pretty unimportant later on. I had a Lamy Safari as my first pen, but going into it I thought that the snap cap would be a huge issue. I thought it would be super loud or annoying to put on and off or something like that. Turns out it's not even a problem now that I've got the pen lol.
That pentel looks awesome! I really like the simple and classy look of it. That's a big reason I like the Lamy 2000. It looks like a black pen at first, but is much cooler once you really look at it.
Honestly with speakers, cheap stuff is a lot more fun that expensive stuff to me. I've got a pair of Quad Z-3 towers. Yeah, of course they sound good. If they cost that much and don't, there's a big problem. The thing I like about cheaper speakers is how they all have a very fun character. Once you're spending a lot of money, every speaker out there just tries to sound exactly the same. Cheaper speakers do different stuff though. There are some speakers that focus on midrange, so vocals sound really sweet and warm. There are some that focus on the top end, so you get every little detail up top. There are some that focus on dynamics, so you get that "front row of a concert" sorta feel. I like experimenting with all that stuff. It's just fun. And you don't have to spend a ton of money and get those KEFs to really get into it.
Just for fun, I'll build a cheap setup for you, so you'll know what to get in the future if you ever feel inclined haha.
The Micca MB42X are really the "go-to" starter speaker. They're one of the cheapest that sound decent. And, honestly, they sound really good.
SMSL SA50 to power them. That's on sale for the same price as the SA36 right now. They're the same thing, just this has more power. You don't need it, but you might as well have it haha.
Some speaker cable. You need to cut it and strip it to put it into the speakers. There are quite a few tutorials out there on it. It's pretty easy.
Boom, just like that you've got a sweet stereo speaker setup that will blow any single speaker out of the water, and easily impress anyone! It comes to around $150 with everything.
I'm not trying to talk you into anything, but I'm basically pointing out that you don't have to spend thousands of dollars to get a respectable system.
While we're on this, another thing I like about hobbies is that anyone can be in it at any price range, and that's super cool to me. If someone only has money for a $15 Pilot fountain pen, who cares? That's awesome that they like fountain pens! They don't need to have a $200 fountain pen to be cool. Just anything is sweet. Same with speakers. You don't need a multi thousand dollar system to be "into audio" or whatever you'd call it. If you've got a setup that you like, at whatever price, that's sweet! I'm glad we both enjoy music.
You’ll need an amplifier like this
Look behind your speaker to see the power of it (in Watt [W]) and search an amplifier with enough output power. This amplifier as a 100W output for example.
And to connect the speakers to the amplifier you’ll need this type of cables
And then you can play music via Bluetooth or, if you have a mini jack, you can use that type of cables Hope I helped !
Turntable: Fluance RT82 $300 adds an optical sensor speed controlled servo motor for lower wow and flutter and speed variation and the speed won't drift since the sensor is monitoring the speed 400 times a second.
Phono preamp: Pyle PP444 $14 to start is around the same quality as the one built into the RT80.
Powered speakers: Neumi BSP5 $139.
Or instead of powered speakers, a mini amp, RCA to 3.5mm cable, passive speakers plus speaker wire. Then upgrade to better passive speakers later when you can.
Or look for a used stereo receiver with a phono input and a pair of used passive speakers. What is a nearby town or zip I can search? Reply here or chat.
Your Dayton amp probably has rca plugs for the input. You can pick up a 3.5mm to rca adapter to connect the two.
https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-3-5mm-2-Male-Adapter-Stereo/dp/B01D5H8JW0/
Think of this as a stereo but with a shaker in place of the speaker. You have a sound card wired to an amp wired to the shaker
One thought is to run analog audio directly into the elgato instead of putting it through the converter. Use something like this...
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Thanks for showing me a version of this working. If you'll indulge, can you treat me like an idiot and help me complete the connections. Here are photos of what I'm working with.
I think the male-male TRS cable I'm working with isn't the right thing to use as input to the iphone. OR the white iPhone dongle is only capable of sending, rather than receiving, audio via a TRS cable.
On the back side, I got these 1/4-inch-to-RCA adapters for the left and right monitor channels. I think I need something like these RCA-to-TRS adapters to plug right into the iPhone dongle but I'm not 100%.
Any thoughts?
Turntable > phono preamp (unless the turntable has one built in) > RCA to 3.5mm audio cable > Aux input on Bluetooth speaker.
You already have the Bluetooth speaker or you need to buy one? If buying one consider buying a pair of speakers with RCA input and Bluetooth instead. Which country for recommendations?
RCA switch, stereo preamp, mixer, or a monitor controller.
How do you currently control the volume of both monitors?
Schiit Sys is a 2 input passive preamp with volume control for the studio monitors.
Echo Dot has 3.5mm output to connect a 3.5mm to RCA cable. Besides WiFi audio streaming with voice or app control it's also a Bluetooth receiver.
Wiim Mini or Pro adds Apple Airplay 2 with Siri, Pro adds Google Chromecast and Assistant.
Tested?
The Sony STR-AV770 does have a bunch of line level inputs to test the receiver and speakers with other audio sources.
Smartphone, tablet or computer > 3.5mm to RCA audio cable > Sony receiver for example.
Or connect a simple wire antenna to the Sony to use the radio tuner.
Or a $20 Bluetooth receiver with included audio cable or $15 Echo Dot WiFi streaming audio receiver with voice or app control and it's also a Bluetooth receiver plus a 3.5mm to RCA cable.
no, rather something like this
Use the headphone Jack on your PC and the Tape In on the VLZ.
If you want to use USB (which is the better option, if the sole purpose of the system is playback), I'd go for a mixer with a built in USB Interface, like a Mackie ProFX
Transferring vhs and cassette will occur in real time, so whatever the length of content is, is how long it will take to record (not like digital files). A long tape you could just leave and go eat lunch, but a bunch of little clips will be annoying unfortunately.
If you're willing to spend money ($140) you can buy a little capture device with a screen, like this, that you just plug into and record to a USB drive, no computer needed. I've never used one, so read reviews! The same company also sells this cassette to usb thing if you dont't want to do the audio cable method described below.
Otherwise, You just need a capture card for your computer, Amazon sells lots of usb ones, some very cheap like this ($13) which might be a pain to setup and capture from if you aren't wanting to do some troubleshooting if it doesn't work, but Personally I would go with something like this Hauppage, or Roxio ($50) they are trusted names and comes with capture software. Otherwise you'd need something like adobe premiere or another video editing program that can "ingest" from the usb device.
You could probably record the audio cassette tapes using that video capture card, though I'm not 100% it does an audio only capture. Otherwise you can get a 3.5 stereo cable and go from the headphone out of your player/walkman into the audio input (usually a pink mic input or labeled w/ a circle with arrow pointing up) on your computer. If your cassette device is rca (red/white) you'll need an rca to 3.5 cable. If your computer is a laptop or doesn't have an audio input, something like this should work. Then use a software like Audacity to record.
