Electronic musician adapter kit won't make your music sound good
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Dec 24th 2007 6:15PM
posted Dec 24th 2007 6:15PM
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posted Dec 24th 2007 6:15PM
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Looks like a pile of junk, but a good pile of junk. I need that kind of stuff around, seems like it comes in handy a lot.
How much are these going for? I bet I could rustle up at least 5 of these kits in my junk boxes.
The site says the kit goes for $65.
They also compare it to buying this stuff in Radio Shack for almost double the price of this kit - but I'm not sure I entirely believe that.
Joe: You ever actually buy cables and adapters at Radioshack? I could believe it costing 3-4x as much easy. They'll try to change $20 for a 1 foot patch cable. Adapters are just as bad. I can spot a few things in that kit that I know would be going for at least $10 each.
pretty old, I sold that kit 3 years ago when working as an instruments salesman, looks like cheap HOSA adapters and cables, not what i'd call pro (i prefer to build my own survival kit with parts that would actually save my life, not worsen it so I use neutrik plugs and adapters)
Ok, almost complete. Where are the MIDI cords/adapters? You need those. A little Toslink, Firewire, and USB cords and adapters would've made this little package a bit more complete.
Those are the types of cables you'd be using to connect your own equipment to more of your own equipment, not to someone else's sound system.
could be wrong but hasn't this same kit been around for like two years? i thought i read it here
that is probably the moste usefull ive seen on this site in a long time (ever since the taxidermied beaver case mod)
Just because they won't make our music sound good doesn't mean we don't need them!
I'm sure I have all the components of the kit lying around, but I could completely justify having a "just-in-case" kit around.
cost 65 bucks
Nice. Now where's a digital audio out-to-speaker wire adapter? For professional musicians, the RCA adapters are sweet, but I have this unit that has an audio out resembling an RCA port for a subwoofer, but every subwoofer I'm running into is using standard speaker wires split red/black, the two-piece coppers. How do I solve that problem?
Seems a decent idea, but it's not complete. Not at all.
Digital audio out to speaker wire adapter? You must be describing it wrong, because that doesn't make any sense. It is not possible to take a S/PDIF output and use some kind of adapter to convert it to something capable of driving a subwoofer. That requires a decoder and an amp at the very least.
splice the rca cable open, there are your two speaker wires right there.
@andrew wilson
Is that seriously all that's inside an RCA cable? I'm a technical sound mixer, but I've never gone into the finer details...just know patching, what cord serves what purpose, amps and the like. Never cracked anything open.
If that's the case, I can plug one end into my subwoofer out port, cut off the other end, unwind the two wires within and plug those into the subwoofer's receivers. That would be excellent.
looks handy but over priced.
the price is right for what you get (that is pay less get lesser quality like that kit)
65 for a golden-less connector?.