Speaker Q

[kowalski]

Hi,

I have two dual-monitor psuedo-stereo laptop speakers and would like to use them as mono speakers. I searched the web a bit but I'm probably not using the right terminology in my searches.

Can I just strip the cable of a 3.5mm jack, split each channel into two and send two L to one speaker and two R to the other

I'm hoping this will mean both monitors in each speaker will play a single channel, so they can be positioned for truer stereo. Also, is there something that I can get to do this using my wallet rather than my toolkit?


Peace,

kowalski

 

[TLS Guy]

Hi,

I have two dual-monitor psuedo-stereo laptop speakers and would like to use them as mono speakers. I searched the web a bit but I'm probably not using the right terminology in my searches.

Can I just strip the cable of a 3.5mm jack, split each channel into two and send two L to one speaker and two R to the other

I'm hoping this will mean both monitors in each speaker will play a single channel, so they can be positioned for truer stereo. Also, is there something that I can get to do this using my wallet rather than my toolkit?


Peace,
kowalski

What are those speakers, and are they active? That means do you plug them in to the AC mains?

You can get a stereo mono adapter cable.

The other issue is that those units have phasing and delay circuits to create the stereo effect, and will make dreadful stereo speakers.

 

[kowalski]

Hey,

They are a pair of Wowee One Slims (WOWee ONE Slim Black & Chrome - WOWee ONE). They take power through micro-USB to charge their internal batteries.

You are saying then that the internal floodle-pops and singdo-bongles are built to jiggerflap the sounds to generate fake-stereo and that if I gave it two left channels it would try to jiggerflap them too and cause cacophonous ear hell, or something? So I'd probably be best off just using them as I do now, through a normal audio 1 -> 2 splitter and allowing them both to emit their faux-stereo as designed. Is this correct?

I googled 'stereo mono adapter cable', thank you. Do I just need one of these to test it (3.5mm Stereo Mini Jack to 2x Mono Plugs Lead Cable - 3m | eBay) For just £4 I might!


Peace,

kowalski

 

[TLS Guy]

Hey,

They are a pair of Wowee One Slims (WOWee ONE Slim Black & Chrome - WOWee ONE). They take power through micro-USB to charge their internal batteries.

You are saying then that the internal floodle-pops and singdo-bongles are built to jiggerflap the sounds to generate fake-stereo and that if I gave it two left channels it would try to jiggerflap them too and cause cacophonous ear hell, or something? So I'd probably be best off just using them as I do now, through a normal audio 1 -> 2 splitter and allowing them both to emit their faux-stereo as designed. Is this correct?

I googled 'stereo mono adapter cable', thank you. Do I just need one of these to test it (3.5mm Stereo Mini Jack to 2x Mono Plugs Lead Cable - 3m | eBay) For just £4 I might!


Peace,

kowalski

That looks a particularly nasty POS that probably won't make a tinkers damn what you do with it.

However the unit is mono and not stereo, so it is connecting the right and left channels together.

So to get stereo you will need a 3.5 mm to stereo female RCA adapter. Then you will need anh RCA male, to 3.5 mm adapters.

If you do it like you suggest you will have mono + mono.

If that unit gets anywhere close to 40 Hz I'll eat my hat.

 

[kowalski]

Thanks for the response. I need a little clarification, please.

What is POS, google says Point Of Sale?
Are you saying that there is a single driver in the speaker anyway?

The 40hz thing, don't know (is there a way to test this?) but the bass is awesome far superior to any laptop speaker I have heard before. The depth of bass doesn't come from the speaker alone but the fact that it uses surfaces it is in contact with to resonate the bass tones. They are pretty awesome sound wise specifically the bass they deliver and impressively portable, even pocket-able, which has specific appeal to me as I will be couch-surfing around Spain on Rollerblades for the foreseeable future.


Peace,

kowalski

 

[TLS Guy]

Thanks for the response. I need a little clarification, please.

What is POS, google says Point Of Sale?
Are you saying that there is a single driver in the speaker anyway?

The 40hz thing, don't know (is there a way to test this?) but the bass is awesome far superior to any laptop speaker I have heard before. The depth of bass doesn't come from the speaker alone but the fact that it uses surfaces it is in contact with to resonate the bass tones. They are pretty awesome sound wise specifically the bass they deliver and impressively portable, even pocket-able, which has specific appeal to me as I will be couch-surfing around Spain on Rollerblades for the foreseeable future.


Peace,

kowalski

There is one speaker and some sort of gel radiator. I guess this is some type of vibrator. There is gel on the back to bond with a surface, and the gel radiator transmits through the gel and sets up vibrations in the surface on which the device is placed. The surface it is placed on affects the sound, There must be some type of crossover between the single driver and the gel radiator. I had never heard of such a contraption before. I should think it's Owee, rather than WoWee.

In any event an arrangement like that has to be mono. So you will have to connect it like I said, other wise you will have double mono.

POS is short for piece of you know what.

So you would need to insert one of these into your laptop.

And two of these one for each speaker.

Then you would connect the two adapters with mono RCA cables.