[SENOR4Q]

I'm looking into getting either an old reciever or headphone amp to connect to my soundcard but I'm not sure of something. If the old receiver is not stereo and I connect it to my sound card will I then get stereo or just plain mono going into my phones (or coming out of)?

 

[elnero]

If the reciever is mono output you will get mono output regardless of what's input.

 

[C4 Suke]

That wasn't stupid, but this may be, I'm not an expert or anything, but what if you were to split the headphone out with a y-cable and then use another y-cable w/ male connectors to hook up to the first y-cable and hook up the remaining end up w/ your headphones.

Now that I think about it, it probably won't work, anyone have any ideas?

 

[elnero]

I think I see what your saying. You'll just end up with two same mono channels.

 

[Hirsch]

You can't produce a stereo signal with a mono amp, although the converse isn't true. You can, however, use two mono amps to produce stereo, one amp per channel.

 

[Uncledan]

mono => headphone amp != stereo

 

[HighwayStar]

Quote:

Originally posted by Uncledan mono => headphone amp != stereo

Huh ? If you're splitting a mono signal, you'll just get mono in both channels, but it's not stereo. But you can split the stereo signal and run each channel (L&R) through mono amps (like monoblocks) for stereo amplification.