<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 17/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Craven</b> <<a href="mailto:cjl_craves@yahoo.com.au">cjl_craves@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"><div><font face="Tahoma"><strong>Subject:</strong> </font><p> Hello</p><p> Can anyone explain (or direct me to information on) how to construct a wire to connect the 5 DIN socket of the HYBRID Music 5000 Synthesiser to a pair of PC speakers.
</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>As far as I remember (connecting up a Music 500 about 20 years ago..) It's absolutely standard. You could use normal DIN audio leads to connect it to an amplifier. <br><br>
i.e. It outputs Left and Right on pins 3 & 5of the connector, with 2 being signal ground. i.e., the ground pin is the one in the middle, inputs are both pins on one side, and outputs both pins on on the other. - (pins are number 1 4 2 5 3 as you read across, to be compatible with the old 3 pin DIN plugs which only had pins at the 9, 12 & 3 o'clock positions.)
<br> <br>Your problem may come from using PC speakers. The Altec Lansing website shows me that those speakers have a captive wire with a 3.5mm jack plug on it, as input. Yuck. Your best bet would be to simply cut this off and connect the cables inside to a new 5 pin DIN. Shields to pin 2, cores to pins 3 & 5. (I think it's 3&5 anyway.. might be 1&4... try it..)
<br><br>If you don't want to do that, then you'll need a 3.5mm socket to DIN plug adapter. I don't know of anywhere that sells these, so you'll probably have to make one. Just connect sheld on the socket it to the centre pin on a DIN plug, and the other two connectors to pins 3 & 5 on the DIN.
<br> <br><br> Rob.<br><br></div></div><br>