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They were not designed to be used that way so don't do it! Speakers have a much lower impedance than headphones so your MP3 player, DVD player (or whatever device it is that just has headphone sockets) may be damaged if you plug speakers into it. That's because the speakers will try to take much more power from the headphone socket than it may be capable of giving. The correct way to drive a pair of speakers is to use a booster amplifier which has been designed to plug into the headphone sockets and has its own separate source of power from batteries or a mains adaptor. Or just use one of the many "booster boxes" which come complete with an amplifier, neat mini-speakers and sometimes a mains power supply too.
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Is there a way to manually mute certain speakers in a situation with a defective headphone plug in where sound comes out of both headphones and built in laptop speakers?
Nope - if your sound is coming from both the headphones and the built-in speakers, it's your headphone socket in the laptop - not the plug that's at fault ! Basically an audio socket is a switch. While no external speakers (ie headphones) are connected, its internal components direct the sound to the computer's built-in speakers. Inserting a plug into the socket breaks the connection to the internal speaker circuitry, and directs the sound to the headphones.
How do you fix your sound when you plug a head phone but then when you take it out it doesnt work wWhy?
Because the connector from your headphones is not in the socket, therefore the audio current cannot travel to your headphone speakers, and the headphone will not emit any noise.
can external speakers be attached to the system?
External speakers can be attached to this product through use of the headphone socket. Due to the product mainly being intended to be used with headphones you may need use amplified speakers to maintain sound quality.
How do you wire your speakers?
That depends. If they're computer speakers and all your wires are headphone-jack style, then all you do is run the headphone wire from your speakers and plug it into your computer speaker input on the sound card, or a headphone jack. If they're not computer speakers and you want to wire component speakers through your computer, you'll need a receiver to power them, speaker wire to go from your speakers to the receiver, and a cable to go from your receiver "input jack" to your computer. That cable should have a red and white RCA on one end, and a headpone jack on the other.
Where on your laptop do you plug in speakers?
in the headphone jack
How do you attach music system's speakers to computer?
You can connect external speakers on a computer on either the headphone socket or sound output sockets on the sound card. You just need the compatible connectors on the audio wires of the music system speakers to connect to these sockets. - Neeraj Sharma
Why would my headphone jack work but not my speakers?
because the speakers aren't working
What exactly is a delphi boombox?
It's a portable stereo speaker package for the Delphi SKYFi. It uses high quality speakers for maximum bass, and also has a headphone socket to disable the speakers. It can also run on either batteries or mains AC.
How to undo if you accidentally disabled the built in speaker in laptop?
You go to controll panel on your laptop and go to sound then you go to headphone and speakers( which works for built in speakers)then you go to levels and find the perfect volume. Hope this was easy! :)
Your desktop monitor has in-built speakers When you put in the headphone sound comes from both the headphone and the speakers How do you stop the sound from the speakers with headphone jack attached?
Mine will do this if the headphone jack is not completely seated in the plug. Just give a little push and see if it goes on in any further, you may feel or hear a little click as it seats itself.
How to turn headphone mode off on iPhones?
Blow compressed air into the jack (headphone socket)
How do you add a headphone socket to the speaker wires so that the speakers disconnect when the headphones are plugged in?
== Each speaker is driven by a pair of wires coming from the amplifier. One wire is "live" and the other wire is "ground". There are two little contacts in the headphone socket which connect the amplifier's live outputs to the headphones when the headphone jack is inserted. When the headphone jack is removed the contacts reconnect the outputs to the speakers. So it's important to connect the "live" side of each of the speaker lines to these switches - not the "ground" wires which should stay connected to the speakers! Because headphones usually have a much higher impedance than speakers the headphones will draw a lot less power from the amplifier but that won't do it any harm so there is no need to add any extra resistors in the leads. == Connect it to one side of the speaker line. You'd better have a resistor in the lead going to the earphone.
