Arny Krueger wrote:

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message

R wrote:

I want to attach a pair of Genelec powered monitors or an amplifier
and speakers to my PC computer. How should I do it? Can I attach a
them through the headphone jack?

The concept of connecting Genelecs via anything as horrible as a 3.5mm
mini-jack makes me cringe.

A 3.5 mm jack in good operating condition is objectively a fine connection
for line-level signals. If you wired them like a TRS jack, they would do an
equally good job of passing signals at the required voltages and impedances.

The contacts tend to be rather flimsy ( low pressure ) though and prone to
creating noise / intermittency if you as much as 'nudge' the lead.

The fact that most 3.5mm mini-jacks are of are *decidedly* consumer or even
'sub-consumer' manufacturing quality is noteworthy. Especially those on PC
sounds cards IME.


The whole problem with 3.5 mm jacks is that they are fragile, and so many of
them are broken.

That doesn't help.


I *fearlessly* predict that sooner or later someone will come out with a
heavy duty solid *titanium* (or equivalent) 3.5 mm plug and jack, for use
on high end portable digital players. It will be rigged enough to double as
a chassis punch! ;-)

Neutrik ?


Graham