Connecting this to laptop or phone

[Andreas Lilja]

There's two outputs for Right and Left respectively. How? I sold my computer monitor so I'm left with laptop or phone. There's only a single headphone jack so I only hear Left or Right. Help? 

[Andreas Lilja]

2 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Sorry I don't really understand your question, could you please rephrase it?

 

 

I want to connect my Edifier S730 to a laptop but there's two RCA cables for Left and Right (total four) and my laptop has a single headphone jack. Is it even possible? 

[Andreas Lilja]

1 minute ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Oh yeah, there's cables you can buy for cheap that'll take a headphone jack and split it to RCA

Right now I can only connect the Left or Right speaker to my laptop. 

 

Would you mind finding exactly what you're proposing on Amazon or something? 

 

Thanks for the help btw. 

[Andreas Lilja]

4 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Here's the cable:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-3-5mm-2-Male-Adapter-Stereo/dp/B01D5H8JW0/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=3.5+mil+to+rca&qid=1597725587&sr=8-3

 

I already have that twice, see my initial screenshot. 

 

Red and white for Left speaker, another red and white pair for Right speaker. Both lead to something that can be plugged into a laptop headphone jack, but there's only one hole on the laptop compared to a desktop. So only one side can play. 

 

[Andreas Lilja]

What the audio in ressembles. 

[Andreas Lilja]

Gives two cables that can be plugged in headphone jack, but laptops only have one hole. So you either have Left or Right output, can't have both. 

[Andreas Lilja]

3 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Wait, that looks like a weird cable, the cable I linked to earlier has one 3.5 to one left and one right channel RCA, but that looks like two 3.5's to one left and one right channel RCA

It's two cables. 

 

The system needs two of each, Red and White for Left, Red and White for Right. Yeah they look different but they serve the same purpose. As you may notice it translates to two headphone jack inputs, but laptops only have a single hole. 

[Andreas Lilja]

Just now, lexusgamer05 said:

Oh well from the perspective of that picture you took it looked like one single cable

Fair enough. 

 

So there's no way of connecting a laptop to the speaker system? 

 

[Andreas Lilja]

23 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Sorry, can't really help you here

https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Headphone-Splitter-Female-Perfect-Devices/dp/B01CEZJHKC/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=Headphone+jack+splitter&qid=1597729856&sr=8-9

 

Gonna try this. 

[fred82]

8 hours ago, Andreas Lilja said:

It's two cables. 

 

The system needs two of each, Red and White for Left, Red and White for Right. Yeah they look different but they serve the same purpose. As you may notice it translates to two headphone jack inputs, but laptops only have a single hole. 

No

Red = right

White = Left

 

left side is : one red one white together .. so one cable to connect to laptop

right side is for CD player 

 

as far as i can understand (hopefully not wrong)

[Arphis]

From what I can see @fred82 is right. Audio-In PC and Audio-In CD are for different sources, you only have to connect one source (so 1x red 1x white) to your laptop to get stereo sound. Just take the 3.5 to RCA splitter, connect it to "Audio-In PC" and to your laptop and that should work.

 

If it doesnt work something is broken or something else is setup wrong. Maybe the speaker wires arent properly connected, your laptop audio output isnt properly configured or the splitter cables are junk. But you shouldnt need to, and actually be able to use 2 sources at the same time.

 

Have you tried to run it from your smartphone instead of your laptop?

[Andreas Lilja]

Could it be that white goes into red, according to the manual.

 

https://cdn.ventmere.com/edifier-dev/uploads/user-manual/s730_en.pdf

 

@Arphis @lexusgamer05 @fred82

[tikker]

7 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

Could it be that white goes into red, according to the manual.

 

https://cdn.ventmere.com/edifier-dev/uploads/user-manual/s730_en.pdf

 

@Arphis @lexusgamer05 @fred82

Nope. As @fred82 says. Red is right and white is left. You should connect one of your 3.5mm to RCA cables to "AUDIO IN" part on the subwoofer, the one labeled PC. Then you use some speaker wire to connect the red and black "SPEAKER OUTPUT" terminals to each of the speakers.

 

If only one speaker is working, check the connections to the other speaker. You can try switching the left and right channels to see if it's really the speakers or perhaps just a broken cable.

[Andreas Lilja]

I'm gonna try a new set of splitter cables, at least now I have an idea of how it's supposing to work. Thanks. Hopefully the system is not unsellable e-waste. 

 

@tikker

[Andreas Lilja]

Aight I owe you all poutines. 

 

Somehow pressed "DI" on the remote and now everything works fine. Also could be the volume that was set too low, on the laptop 20 is normal but on my PC it was an air horn. 

 

@Arphis @tikker @lexusgamer05 @fred49