Using home cinema set speakers as pc speakers

[WinnieDePoeh]

Hi all,

 

So I have this Samsung home cinema set my dad bought around 2013. The receiver, a Samsung HT-E5500 broke a few years ago and the speakers are useless without the receiver because of the peculiar connectors the speakercables have. I own a set of pc speakers, they are not bad, but also not that great. So I thought maybe I can use my old 5.1 Samsung cinema set speakers as pc speakers. The cable and the connectors of the speakers look like this: https://imgur.com/a/jFTya4g all the speakers come with their own cable with their own connector color. They all go into the cinema set which looks like this: https://imgur.com/a8ZiWjM. The name of the speaker set is ps-es4-1.

I thought that maybe there is some kind of adapter or other thing I can use to transmit the speaker signal into my pc, but it's harder to find information about it than i thought.

Do you guys have ideas?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

[tikker]

They look like passive speakers to me, so you'll need an amplifier instead of going straight to the PC.  Secondly the back of that unit says 3 Ohm, while nowadays from memory I mostly see 4-8 Ohm. I'm not sure if that they'll play completely nice with each other in the case of that mismatch.

[Psittac]

There is nothing that say's you couldn't get a second hand receiver and clip those plugs off the end at which point the only proprietary piece was the plug on the old and now dead receiver.  After cutting those off it's just speaker wire that can be easily connected to a standard pole.

[circeseye]

9 hours ago, tikker said:

They look like passive speakers to me, so you'll need an amplifier instead of going straight to the PC.  Secondly the back of that unit says 3 Ohm, while nowadays from memory I mostly see 4-8 Ohm. I'm not sure if that they'll play completely nice with each other in the case of that mismatch.

yea those 3ohm speakers on a 8ohm avr most likely will be bad...maybe a 4ohm avr will be better suited. (im betting if you throw a meter on them it will say 4 or 4.5ohm)

this is what i got from a site about using 3ohm on a higher ohm
"If the receiver was designed to use a 6 to 8 Ohm speaker, then changing the speaker to a 3 Ohm type will demand more current from the audio amplifier. This might damage the amplifier or cause the sound to be distorted for lack of proper current through the speaker. "