Many users are wondering how to connect music Center   to the computer. This is due to the fact that in itself acoustic system   today is practically of no value. After all, to listen to songs at the center you must use disk or flash drive. A computer connected to the Internet allows you to listen to any music, as well as watch movies. The musical device in this circuit will be an excellent conductor for sounds.

It is also interesting that with the help of the center you can enjoy a full radio broadcast without using headphones. And the dynamics of a musical instrument for the most part are much better than many speakers.

Connecting the music center to the computer should start with the purchase of the cord. This wire is popularly called a tulip, since it has a branch similar to a flower:

1. It is used to transmit sound from one source to another. You can buy it in an electronics store or radio products.
2. For purchase network cable   you need to know the brand and model of your devices (both a computer and a music center), since different devices require different plug diameters.
3. Do not listen to those who advise connecting speakers from the music center to the computer directly. So you can close all the wiring and damage not only the speakers, but also the PC itself.

When choosing a cord in a store, make sure that it has a normal length. Remember how far your acoustic monster is from the computer, and figure out what footage you need.

Connection Instructions

Please note that with such a wire you can connect both a laptop and a music center desktop computer. Both there and there must be used special plug, which is commonly called "jack":

1. So, after we figured out the purchase of the wire, we carefully take it out of the package and straighten it. Working with a twisted cord is very inconvenient.
2. Now we insert one end of the cable into the connector on the stereo system. Depending on the manufacturer, the entrance may be located in different places. Carefully inspect the device to find it.
3. The second end of the cord we attach to the computer. This plug will have standard sizeso that you can easily figure it out.
4. To connect the speaker unit to the computer, on the rear panel system unit   you need to find the headphone input. It is in it that our “jack” is inserted. After you insert the cable into the socket, the system will automatically shut down.
5. After that, you need to set up the music center. For the sound to start playing through it, select “aux” in the settings. The same option is used to transmit sound when connecting the device to a TV. Aux mode allows you to redirect sound from one device to another.

Another point worth knowing is that when buying a tulip, models will offer you gold plated. It is believed that they transmit better sound. This is true, it’s almost impossible to catch such a difference at home. To do this, you will have to connect the cord to professional equipment.

DIY tulip making

Adapters for connecting one equipment to another are quite inexpensive. But there are situations when you do not want to go to the store or you just like to mess with electronics. In this case, you can make a cable to connect the computer and the music center yourself. To do this, do the following manipulations:

1. Take a regular wire from the headphones with a standard plug and remove insulation from it.
2. After this, it is necessary to twist the copper wires into a tight harness.
3. Now we wind one end of the wire to the audio input. Of course, it is best to solder the parts.
4. Next, the contacts on the center and the other end of the wire are connected.
5. After that, we connect the metal and plastic parts using electrical tape.
6. Such a cord can be connected not only to a computer, but also to a phone or tablet.

Of course, such a system is imperfect and its implementation will require a lot of material that is difficult to find in the house of an ordinary person. Therefore, it is easier to buy a cable.

When using the headphone cord, arm yourself with a lighter and scorch the ends of the wire. So you remove the insulation and get rid of unnecessary hairs that will interfere with work.

Conclusion

Using the music center as speakers for a computer is very reasonable and practical. Firstly, the speakers of the device transmit sound much better than most computer speakers, and secondly, in this case, your center will not gather dust on a shelf. After all, with the advent of the Internet, listening to music on disks has become not practical.

A personal computer is, of course, a universal thing. But fans of listening to music in excellent quality, simple speakers will not bring the usual pleasure. And if you have one, you can use it to improve your PC. So, we will tell you whether the music center can be connected to a computer, and also explain how to do it correctly.

How to connect the music center to a computer?

If you want to achieve incredible acoustic sound   file being played on a PC, try to connect a music center on your own. It is not difficult to do this, even a beginner can do it. Connect both objects - the computer and the center - will have to using a special cord 2RCA-mini jack 3,5 mm. In fact, at one end of the cable there is such a familiar 3.5-mm mini-jack plug, which is used to connect headphones. Its other end ends with two “tulips” 2RCA of white and red colors. By the way, if you have soldering skills, if you have the source material, creating a cord to connect the music center to the computer is not difficult.

So, the procedure is as follows:

1. “Tulips” are connected to the AUX connector, which is located on the rear panel of the center. It looks like two holes, white and red.
2. After that, we connect the second end of the cord to the green connector-output for the speakers on the panel of your PC.
3. It remains only to switch your music center to AUX mode and enjoy the clarity of sound.

Can I connect speakers from the music center to the computer?

If you have speakers from the music center, the question of using them instead of a small pair that reproduces sound with low power and low quality, but without the very central unit, may quite reasonably arise. But here comes the difficulty. The fact is, in the block is an amplifier that powers the speakers. A indicators power sound card   your computer is most likely not enough for them to work. Moreover, such a direct connection can damage the sound card.

Therefore, it is likely to connect speakers from the music center to the computer if you can find a suitable board or small amplifier. But here pay attention to the fact that the power of the speakers in no case exceeds this amplifier characteristic. By the way, those who are fond of electronics themselves can solder such a device. Accordingly, to connect a PC and an amplifier, you need the same 2RCA-mini jack 3.5 mm cord, which was discussed above.

This is the laptop itself, a music center with the AUXE function, which is almost 100% of music centers, and an adapter cable of the corresponding length. The cable should have two bells on one side and one jack on the other. Such a cable can be bought at any store of radio / video electronics and spare parts, its price is in the range of 100-200 rubles.

Bells, or tulips, usually have red and white colordenoting sound channels. The cable itself usually consists of two “glued” wires or a sheath in the form of a single wire (in fact, there are two thin wires inside the sheath to output the left and right sound channels).
Jack is a metal pencil, the standard is 3.5 mm. Such a jack is used in all portable headphones, and the output for it is in all players and in many mobile phones.
The cable itself must be of appropriate length so that you can easily connect the computer to the music center without difficulty and without tensioning the wire.

The jack is inserted into the headphone output on a laptop, indicated by painted or engraved headphones on the side of the computer case. The bells are connected to the amplifier (music center) in accordance with the colors of the bells and sound outputs.
After connecting the cable, turn on AUX or VIDEO on the music center, and the sound from the laptop will be output to the speakers.

If you wish to receive from your computer top quality   sound, you should pay attention not to computer speakers, but to audio equipment, in particular - good speakers and an amplifier (or receiver). Unfortunately, amplifiers are not always compatible with computer sound card outputs. However, this is just a fixable thing.

Instruction manual

If you are dealing with a high-quality and inexpensive amplifier, even if it’s obsolete, from the times of the USSR, then the easiest way is to buy an adapter cable that allows you to connect the amplifier to the output of a sound card. In the vast majority of cases, this will be the minijack - 5DIN adapter, distributed throughout all radio markets and stores and cheap. If you couldn’t buy such an adapter, you can solder it yourself by first obtaining minijack and 5DIN connectors. In this case, you need to know the following: the second pin of the 5DIN connector is the mass (it is the highest), the 3rd and 5th are the left and right speakers, respectively.

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Most audio amplifiers are stereo, designed to connect no more than 2 speakers.

Helpful advice

After connecting, do not forget to select the one to which the cable from the computer goes to the sound sources of the amplifier, otherwise you will not hear anything.

Speakers embedded in a laptopmay sound very loud, but the bass is poor. Therefore, in stationary conditions laptop   better attached to the outside amplifier. The way this is connected depends on the model of amplifier.

Instruction manual

To make a cable according to the first method, take a stereo jack plug with a diameter of 3.5 mm and two shielded wires. Braid both wires solder to general contact   connector. Connect the central core of one of them to the contact corresponding to the left channel, the other - to the contact corresponding to the right channel.

The second way is to use old headphones from the player. Cut off the sound emitters from them, and strip the ends of the wires and tin. Conductors coated with colorless or yellow varnish are common, a wire coated with blue or green varnish corresponds to the left channel, and red to the right channel. If necessary, repair the breakage in this cable.

If the amplifier is equipped with RCA (“tulip”) input jacks, take two plugs of the appropriate type. The braids of both shielded wires or the white or yellow conductors of the cable from the headphones, connect to the ring contacts of the plugs. Solder the central core of one of the shielded wires or the blue or green conductor of the headphone cord to the pin pin of one of the plugs, the central core of the other shielded wire or the red wire of the headphone cable to the pin pin of the other plug.

Instruction manual

Planning to connect the music center to a personal computer, you will have to get a special adapter wire that will allow you to synchronize the operation of devices. You may need two types of wire: with a split plug at two ends (relevant when connecting the music center to a PC through a subwoofer), and a cable with a split plug at one end (needed to connect the center directly to computer) As you already understood, there are two ways to connect the music center to a PC, which we will consider in more detail.

Connecting the music center to a PC through a subwoofer.
If you pay attention to back panel of your music center, you will see two jacks located close to each other (audio inputs). Insert one double end of the wire into these jacks, while the other double end must be inserted into the subwoofer (instead of speakers). Turn on the music center and set it to “AUX” playback mode.

Connecting the music center to computer   directly.
In this case, you will need a wire, one end of which will be equipped with a forked plug, and the other - a single one. Insert the bifurcated plug into the sockets of the music center. The one-piece plug should be inserted into the audio output on the back of the computer. In the dialog that opens, define the device as “Center Channel / Subwoofer”. After connecting, turn on the music center and activate the “AUX” mode. So you do proper connection   center to PC.

Tip 2: How to connect speakers from the music center to the computer

Many people use a computer as a music center: with its help you can listen to music from discs, download it from free Internet resources or just listen to Internet radio. In this case, you can use headphones, special external computer speakers or built-in (on some laptop models). However, such an interface does not satisfy avid music lovers: perfect sound   It turns out only when using professional musical equipment. Therefore, many users connect speakers from the music center to their computer.

Many of us often ask ourselves how to connect the music center to a computer. After all, using this device to listen to music is very practical. For you is available a library located on disks, downloaded from certain Internet sites, as well as radio. After all, if you just use headphones or some external ones, you can’t feel the fullness and richness of high-quality recording. Therefore, true music lovers always try to connect the music center to the computer.

In order to do this, you need a cord-tulip (connects speakers from the music center to the computer, and also connects the music center to the desktop). In shops and markets it is simply called a “tulip”. You can purchase it in any specialized store (computer, household appliances, radio and power tools, music, etc.), as well as in conventional and radio markets.

In order to make the right purchase, you must know the model of your center, since the connectors of this cord will be selected specifically for the dimensions of your music equipment.

If you are interested in how to connect the music center to a computer, then you should not follow the advice of some sellers and connect speakers directly to a PC. Insert one end of your “tulip” into the input connector, which is located in the music center (it is original for each manufacturer, and its location will depend on the device of this or that model).

The second end of this cord will have a standard connector, the so-called “jack”. So that you understand what is at stake, pay attention to the speaker connector, etc. In order to understand how to connect the music center to the computer, you must find a special output jack for speakers or headphones. This is where you need to insert this jack from the tulip. When you do this, the integrated acoustic elements will automatically turn off.

Your next step after you have connected the music center to the computer, you will select a certain option in the center menu that will allow you to play the audio stream from the connected devices. Basically, this is the same button that turns on the sound of the connected TV. That's it, now you know how to connect the music center to the computer. You can enjoy your favorite songs!

Finally, I want to draw your attention to the fact that some sellers will recommend that you purchase an advanced “tulip” with a gold-plated coating. They will say that it will allow you to play music without any unnecessary noise. These cords will be significantly more expensive than regular ones. And although this gold spraying will really have a good effect on sound quality, you are unlikely to be able to feel this difference at home. After all, this is possible only with the help of special professional equipment. Therefore, if you are not a DJ or a professional sound engineer, you do not need it.