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ProSpeaker-Breakout Cable for external sound

updated 08:50 am EDT, Fri May 17, 2002

 
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Griffin Technology has introduced its ProSpeaker-Breakout Cable, which allows Mac owners to connect any set of home stereo speakers directly to a PowerMac G4 or LCD iMac. Designed for "Digital Audio PowerMacs" (running 500MHz or faster), it contains a pair of spring loaded speaker connectors for direcly connecting to speaker wire and is self-powered with no additional hardware or software required. It is $25. Griffin also released PowerMate Software 1.1 for Mac OS 9, which fixes numerous bugs and extends the usability of the wildly popular PowerMate, audio & video programmable USB controller.


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    same connector on ipod??

    on the griffin site there is a pic of the plug. it looks the same as the one on the ipod, no?

    will it work with that?

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    New PowerBooks??

    what aboout the new Poerbooks??? Will it work with them?

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    won't work with ipod

    no, this won't work with ipod. first off, the jack is physically smaller than a regular 2.5mm/1/8" headphone jack. second, the digital audio G4's have a speaker jack that is connected to an amplifier, to power the speakers. even if you had a plug adapter, if you plugged this cable into an ipod headphone jack, there would be nothing to power the external speakers connected.


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    So clever!!!

    This is so very clever. I want one...

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    How Much Power on my IMAC

    Sounds great, any ideas how many watts of power the new iMac produces?

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    iMac audio amplifier --

    (Longtime reader, first time poster, as they say)

    Taken from Apple's site:

    Audio

    - Built-in speaker
    - Apple Pro Speakers (9 watts each) (3)
    - Internal 18-watt digital amplifier
    - Apple speaker minijack for connection to Apple Pro Speakers
    - Headphone jack
    - Built-in microphone for speech recognition and audio recording
    - Support for external USB audio devices

    That's only 9 watts/channel. True, it's pretty low distortion because of the digital amplifier, but that's nowhere near the juice necessary to pound the walls with proper floor-standing speaker systems.

    I'd think of using studio monitor-type speakers with this adapter, although I've been pleasantly surprised that the Pro baseball-size speakers sound as good as they do.

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