I have an old TEAC MC-DX32i. It's kind of an iHome-type thing--clock, alarm, CD player, old iPod dock, etc. Its two speakers are long dead, but the subwoofer still works great, and is in fact my favorite subwoofer.
The way that it hooks up is the power from the wall goes directly to the subwoofer, which has a power switch, and a special proprietary cable, that I assume transmits power one way and audio the other, connects from the subwoofer to the iHome part, which has the actual TRS AUX IN jack.
The iHome part seems on its way out, the standard way that basic digital speaker electronics tend to go--random shutdowns, buttons only doing what they should if you press them for the exact perfect amount of time, etc. When it finally dies, I'll need a new subwoofer, but sticking with the one I like so much seems much more appealing. For one thing, it's free, and I already have a soldiering iron and plenty of experience using it (mostly on my electric bike and basic audio hardware stuff, like a DIY microphone or a little homemade box that adds or subtracts gain from a TRS connection).
So, I want to know if it's possible to make some sort of adapter to just plug the subwoofer directly into my computer via standard 1/8" stereo TRS. You can find pictures of the proprietary 9-pin cable by Google Image searching "TEAC MC-DX32i cable".
The way that it hooks up is the power from the wall goes directly to the subwoofer, which has a power switch, and a special proprietary cable, that I assume transmits power one way and audio the other, connects from the subwoofer to the iHome part, which has the actual TRS AUX IN jack.
The iHome part seems on its way out, the standard way that basic digital speaker electronics tend to go--random shutdowns, buttons only doing what they should if you press them for the exact perfect amount of time, etc. When it finally dies, I'll need a new subwoofer, but sticking with the one I like so much seems much more appealing. For one thing, it's free, and I already have a soldiering iron and plenty of experience using it (mostly on my electric bike and basic audio hardware stuff, like a DIY microphone or a little homemade box that adds or subtracts gain from a TRS connection).
So, I want to know if it's possible to make some sort of adapter to just plug the subwoofer directly into my computer via standard 1/8" stereo TRS. You can find pictures of the proprietary 9-pin cable by Google Image searching "TEAC MC-DX32i cable".