Powered speakers in HT system?????

[RickH]

I have 4 HK multimedia speakers,(powered), that I would like to use in a
small home theatre system. The amp is an Onkyo TX DS575X. Is it possible to
do this? I have tons of adaptors to get from a mini pin to rca but I dont believe that will work......Or I suppose I could pull the guts out of the HK,s
and make them passive?? Thanks for any advise you can give!

 

[mpompey]

RickH, you're probably better off just getting some small factor HTIB type speakers if you want to throw up something quick.

 

[tubesaregood]

It is possible if any of these conditions are met:

1) your speakers have speaker level inputs (not likely)
2) you can convert speaker level signal to low level signal (again not likely)
3) your receiver has preouts (hopefully)

I would not recommend trying to rip out the amps in your speakers. It wouldn't yield the best results. It's feasible, but why would you want to do that?

The best scenario for you here in my opinion would be if your receiver has RCA preouts. Then just connect those to your speakers and use them as the mains.

By the way, RCA to miniplug will work (I'm assuming your speakers have miniplug inputs, like on a portable CD player?)