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Posted by Devbert on May-15-2002 22:40:

Budget DJ Speakers

I just got all my newbie DJ Equipment finally:

Pair of American DJ 2500's
American DJ Q-221 Mixer

I got the Vinyl, the Needles, and the Headphones. Now I need to get a pair of cheap speakers that don't have to sound that great that will work with the mixer.

Any suggestions?

Posted by JohnSmith on May-15-2002 22:52:

ouch. my deepest condolences.

Posted by Devbert on May-15-2002 22:53:

Hehe, it could be much worse.

Fortunately I'm building a godly collection of Trance that I'm not gonna spin for months (until I am good), so I can deal with ok decks/mixer and shitty speakers.

Posted by hapamoto on May-16-2002 00:07:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnSmith
ouch. my deepest condolences.

hey.. everyone has to start somewhere.. i was using the numark belt-drive tables for over a year!

..and to answer your questions, if you're on a budget.. just hook up your mixer to your stereo.. one of my friends actually uses his computer speakers when he practices because he doesn't have a stereo.. computer speakers are cool if u don't have a stereo, just hopefully u have a subwoofer w/ them so it doesn't sound like ur mixing out of a telephone..

Posted by Devbert on May-16-2002 00:18:

All the stuff is in a side bedroom, far from my downstairs stereo. I'm not gonna hook it up to my Klipsch 5.1's that I have hooked up to my Comp. All I have for it is a set of Altec Lansing ACS-54's, which are not unusable, just not practical because the Mixer has a left and right output jacks, and the the speakers both run into the subwoofer to give out one audio jack total (for front speakers on PC Audio Cards). So they won't work. Which is why I need suggestion of other speakers.

Posted by hapamoto on May-16-2002 00:22:

ur sub should have a L & R input.. well mine does, the cable that connects it is a normal 1/8" to the computer, and it splits into a L&R normal RCA which inputs to the sub.. i guess some subs could have the RCA inputs wired on the inside so you can't do that.. sorry bro..

Posted by Devbert on May-16-2002 02:20:

It's weird the way these speakers work:

Left speaker connects to the right, right has a special cable which plugs into the sub. There is a seperate cable which runs from the sub to any one input. So there is no left and right option.

Still though, no suggestions from anyone. I need some choices please.

Posted by hapamoto on May-16-2002 15:13:

if u feel like opening up that wire, there will be a L and R wires inside.. u can go buy a cheap pair of computer speakers..

Posted by Q-PiXeL on May-16-2002 19:28:

Dude, whats the problem using the Altec speakers?

U take the seperate cable which runs from the sub and connect it to ur mixer...
U'll jeut need a special convertor from 1/8" Stereo into RCA...
Dont know if there is one, but I did it like that:
* Female 1/8" Stereo > Female 1/8" Stereo
* Male 1/8" Stereo > RCA Female
* and a normal RCA Male > RCA Male cable

Thats the way connection ur speakers to the mixer... Hope it helps and will work ...

Posted by Devbert on May-17-2002 03:06:

The mixer has a Master Output section, and there are two jacks for L and R. The 1/8 size of the cable is fine, the problem is the way the speakers are designed. Because they are designed for a computer system, which have soundcards that have Front and Back inputs, there is only a singular cable to plug into the outputs. And without dual plugs, it doesn't recognize the soundsource.

Speaker A goes into Speaker B which goes into the Sub. Then a seperate cable goes from the Sub to the soundcard. Only one jack however.

That is the problem. I need advice on a budget pair of DJ speakers, if anyone has advice.

Posted by Dj Zinni on May-17-2002 22:14:

dude how cheap are you talking???

my suggestion would be take the comp speakers and get a RCA(Male) to 1/8" female stereo plug and that would work. have altec speakers like you that are the same way and it works just in case you don't understand the rca side will have 2 plugs and the stereo plus will only have one. they have them at radio-shack for like 6 bux.

or buy some powered monitors for liek 50$ pssl.com has a bunch of cheap ones, but your comp speakers with the sub would be cheaper.

Posted by Devbert on May-18-2002 03:45:

MWUAHHAHAHAHA!!!

Things never turn out as they seem. My bro just got home and we ended up buying a pair of $900 speakers (Dual 15's in each, hehe) and a 400 Watt Power Amplifier.

He convinced me to go halfsies, and I have graduation money, so I figured, what the fuck!

Craziniess. For that much bank we could have gotten a pair of Technic's.

Posted by DJ LIQUID on May-18-2002 04:20:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnSmith
ouch. my deepest condolences.

BWAHAHAHAHAHHA