Possible to hook up other speaker as a temp speaker for an ELK gold?

[ghurty]

Finally started playing around with my ELK Gold.

The kit came missing the speaker, is there a way for me to hook up my computer speaker or an old headphones or some other speakers to it (for experimentation) until the replacement speaker arrives?

Or maybe somehow output the audio to my PC. I have the M1-XEP

Thanks

 

[apostolakisl]

The manual gives the specs for the speaker. Provided your ohms are in the proper range, you can hook it up.

 

[ghurty]

I am thinking about focusing on the speaker part for now.

It is supposed to be 8 ohms.
I have a 4 ohms Logitech speakers (from a computer, they have their own power source).

Would that work?

Thanks

 

[apostolakisl]

I am thinking about focusing on the speaker part for now.

It is supposed to be 8 ohms.
I have a 4 ohms Logitech speakers (from a computer, they have their own power source).

Would that work?

Thanks

That would be a bad idea. When an amp is rated into 8 ohm speakers you should not go below or you risk over-currenting the amp and burning it up. You can always go higher on the ohms but the volume starts to drop.

If you run two speakers in series you will be OK.

Having said that, I am not sure your logitech speakers are normal speakers. When you say they are self powered, to me that means they have a line in on them, not a amplified signal input.

 

[ghurty]

I found around the house a line in speaker that is 200mw and 8ohms. It is powered off of a 9 volt battery.


I also have 1/8" Stereo Panel-Mount Audio Jack adapter.

Would those two together work? or because this is really designed for a amplified signal it wont.


Thanks

 

[ghurty]

Inside that speaker, there appears to be a 16ohm .5 watt speaker. If the whole unit is not good, will that work? Will I be able to hear anything?

Thanks

 

[apostolakisl]

Inside that speaker, there appears to be a 16ohm .5 watt speaker. If the whole unit is not good, will that work? Will I be able to hear anything?

Thanks

You won't damage the elk with this speaker, but you might damage the speaker. Go into Elk globals and turn the volume all the way down. Then gradually raise it to a good volume. A speaker like that isn't going to be something you can turn up to hear all over the house without blowing it up. Just turn it up to normal speach type volume and call it safe.

 

[tmbrown97]

It sounds like you are trying to hook up the amplified output of the Elk to a speaker designed for line level input. I so there is a way to use some resistors to basically drop the M1 audio output to line level. The docs are on the Elk site or here if you search (I'm on my phone-too much work to search).

Otherwise any plain speaker is fine... Not a standalone speaker system. You could even temporarily steal one of your surround speakers from your livingroom and use that... Just follow lou's advice and start with the volume low and increase slowly.