drambit
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I have a pair of vintage shelf speakers hooked up at my cottage similar to the picture below. They're currently hooked up to a stack of stereos that are all blatantly broken in one obvious way or another. Some of them only have one channel, some of them are casette players that will not even play casettes, one of them won't even turn on, etc. I use these things a few times a year when I go out visiting, so quality is not really an issue, all I need them to do is play audio from my phone but louder than my phone can output.
I looked briefly into DACs, full amps, seems like basically every dedicated amplifier on the consumer market is catering to a wildly different audience than me, usually prioritizing quality, portability, interesting technology, etc. Literally all I need is aux to either RCA or just speaker wire clips with halfway usable amplifying in between.
What is the cheapest practical way to do this? Even building the amp myself is not necessarily out of the question, I have a bit of a background in electronics, though I have no background in audio technology. Going looking for used stuff is also not out of the question.
I looked briefly into DACs, full amps, seems like basically every dedicated amplifier on the consumer market is catering to a wildly different audience than me, usually prioritizing quality, portability, interesting technology, etc. Literally all I need is aux to either RCA or just speaker wire clips with halfway usable amplifying in between.
What is the cheapest practical way to do this? Even building the amp myself is not necessarily out of the question, I have a bit of a background in electronics, though I have no background in audio technology. Going looking for used stuff is also not out of the question.
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