HI, been a long time since I was here but had great help.
I'm looking for help with modifying a soundbar to just use the internal speakers directly as two separated channels. As you know a "TV" soundbar has a right and left channel (stereo) which makes it ideal for my purpose. Also with the dual channel input, I can have what I need in a long narrow compact case and much less conspicuous as two separate wall mount speakers. The application is unique. I need some sound reinforcement for seating under a small church balcony. I have no AC power available. Cost to have an electrician put in outlets would get too expensive and even if the soundbar ran on AC adapter with low voltage, I am afraid of having the soundbar active. Someone would ultimately tamper with it and mess it up so I want to use the soundbar speakers hooked directly to the source of the audio to simplify everything.
If I get a soundbar for this, can I open it up and disconnect the two speakers from the circuitry and then connect lead wires off of the speakers to drop outside the soundbar... probably would put in a 3.5mm jack to make it neat and tidy. Don't know if they are typically 8 ohm but hope you guys know how to modify /adapt things to work with a higher impedance speaker. If the impedance is not printed on the magnet, is there a way I could get a close guess with an ohmmeter?
One more thought at this time... since some of these soundbars have designed in a center channel speaker which uses the circuitry, is there any way I can make use of / tie in, this speaker as some sort of blend of the other two speakers passively? Thanks very much... if this is the wrong place for this subject matter, forgive me and direct or move it please to where it should be.
I'm looking for help with modifying a soundbar to just use the internal speakers directly as two separated channels. As you know a "TV" soundbar has a right and left channel (stereo) which makes it ideal for my purpose. Also with the dual channel input, I can have what I need in a long narrow compact case and much less conspicuous as two separate wall mount speakers. The application is unique. I need some sound reinforcement for seating under a small church balcony. I have no AC power available. Cost to have an electrician put in outlets would get too expensive and even if the soundbar ran on AC adapter with low voltage, I am afraid of having the soundbar active. Someone would ultimately tamper with it and mess it up so I want to use the soundbar speakers hooked directly to the source of the audio to simplify everything.
If I get a soundbar for this, can I open it up and disconnect the two speakers from the circuitry and then connect lead wires off of the speakers to drop outside the soundbar... probably would put in a 3.5mm jack to make it neat and tidy. Don't know if they are typically 8 ohm but hope you guys know how to modify /adapt things to work with a higher impedance speaker. If the impedance is not printed on the magnet, is there a way I could get a close guess with an ohmmeter?
One more thought at this time... since some of these soundbars have designed in a center channel speaker which uses the circuitry, is there any way I can make use of / tie in, this speaker as some sort of blend of the other two speakers passively? Thanks very much... if this is the wrong place for this subject matter, forgive me and direct or move it please to where it should be.