Thursday, 02 May 2019
Can I play the output from my computer MP3 player through my home stereo?
Yeah, I have both the computers I regularly use connected to stereo systems by cables – I just bought cables from Radio Shack, with a stereo 1/8″ plug on one end and two RCA jacks on the other, and I plug the cable into the «line-out» of my audio card and the «aux-in» of my equalizer / mixer. It works fine. I did look into finding some sort of wireless solution for one of the machines, since it wasn’t convenient to have it really close to the stereo, but the cheapest wireless devices were around $200, and that seemed a bit much, so I just got a longer cable… it seems to work without a problem – I don’t hear any interference or anything.
I’ve got 24 ft. of cable between my living room machine and the stereo, and it seems to work without a problem – the sound quality is pretty close to playing regular CDs on the stereo, so long as the bit-rate of the MP3s is adequate. I did use shielded extension cable though, not just speaker wires with RCA jacks on the end.
