[Little J040]

Hi,

This may seem like an odd question... but I have a Acer 17" monitor with some built in cheesy speakers... Im guessing their either 8 or 16 ohm.

I decided to goof around and I hooked it up to my headphone rig and powered them via my G-lite...

Is this a bad idea to have such a low impedance connected to my lite?

 

[Little J040]

I found some specs for the internal speakers, there 1.5W, but still cant find anything on the impedance....

 

[granodemostasa]

that's an interesting pre-amp you got there. the glite is designed to even take the very small impedances of the IEMs (i've tried this), so i see nothing wrong with connecting your monitors to it.

 

[Little J040]

only reason for my concern is that it might fry something... If i recall from my car audio days, i know certain sub amps could handle 2-4 ohms, but not always1 ohm The higher quality ones were 1 ohm stable. I know this is a huge difference than 8-16 ohms so i suppose im safe.

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Active speakers into a headamp out? o.O

A better way to connect them would be G-lite loop-out > RCA cable > female 3.5mm jack > male 3.5mm jack > speakers

 

[Little J040]

hm.. point taken.. it's kinda like amping an ipod via the headphone jack vs. line out.

 

[Little J040]

I kinda wanna see if i can take my monitor apart so i can disconnect them from their internal amp, or just use a line out or something. Im also thinking about putting some "nice" 1" speakers in there... lol...