i need guidance

[maldecido33 10+ year member]

i have a two dayton 1 1/8" tweeters, and two dayton 5 1/4" woofers, in proper enclosures properly crossed over

im a complete newbie to home audio. how do I power these? im very familiar with car audio, so i'm gonna try to relate this to car audio

How do I use my laptop as my "headunit", IE my source for the music? do I need a power supply or amp?

basically I have an enclosure with speakers, and a laptop. how do I make these equal music? i don't really want a reciever, don't have the room for one.

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

i don't really want a reciever, don't have the room for one.

You need some kind of integrated amp...Parts Express sells a 15Wx2 chip amplifier that comes in a little case with a volume knob, sounds like what you need. Then, all you'd need is a 1/8" stereo-to-RCA adapter cable to hook your laptop to it.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=300-952

Fits your needs just fine.

 

[maldecido33 10+ year member]

That'll sufficiently power those? the tweets are 50wrms, midwoofers are 30wrms.

or is home audio different from car audio in that insane amounts of power are unecessary? or would I need one of those per enclosure?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

That'll sufficiently power those?

You said you didn't want a receiver //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

or is home audio different from car audio in that insane amounts of power are unecessary?

To a point, yes...my living room system shakes the windows with 8W per side, but I'm running speakers that are a bit more efficient than what you'd be doing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Basically the question should be how much can you spend?

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

You said you didn't want a receiver //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif


To a point, yes...my living room system shakes the windows with 8W per side, but I'm running speakers that are a bit more efficient than what you'd be doing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I would love to know how to do that. I have been researching all **** day and about the best I can come up with is a Seas L18 / TANG BAND 28-847S combination with that silly Dayton crossover.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I would love to know how to do that. I have been researching all **** day and about the best I can come up with is a Seas L18 / TANG BAND 28-847S combination with that silly Dayton crossover.

In the case of the Klipsch's, it's horn loaded compression drivers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

High efficiency has its own drawbacks, though...I get a bit of hum from the amplifiers, that wouldn't be as noticeable with lower-eff speaks...