"Doki" wrote in message
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OrmesbyJohn wrote:
"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
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OrmesbyJohn wrote:
I know zero about speakers... I have a Aiwa music centre, Model NSX
V900 with a couple of nice speakers, ref SX-ANV900. The recording
tape deck had failed so thought I would use the Aiwa speakers with
my pc. Is that possible? If so what plugs into where?..There is a
surround speaker cord plug and a speaker cord with just bare wire
end per speaker.

Most PCs have only a line out, so need an external power amp to drive
speakers. If your music centre has an 'Aux' input (probably phono
sockets) then you could feed this from the PC line out or headphone
socket.
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Thanks for that. Yes the music centre has an Aux but I was hoping to
be able to just use the speakers with the pc...the music centre was
going elsewhere. Guess I can't?

It can't. The music centre does the amplification for the speakers. There
are speakers that run just off the output of the PC, but they sound ****e.
You need an amp and speakers or active speakers.
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OK...Thanks for the advice