PC speakers as Monitors?

[gcounselman]

I have a good set of PC speakers with subwoofer. I know they are not as good as real monitors but I am using them for money's sake. I have an M-Audio Delta44 card and have them plugged into one of the outputs (with a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter). However, I only get playback in the left channel. My adapter is stereo. I have also made sure that my inputs are panned in the center. My Delta outputs are also panned in the center, but still only the left speaker plays back. When I plug the speakers back into my AWE32 and set my output to the AWE, my recordings play back in stereo. Any ideas? I thought about just using my AWE32 for outputs until I could get some monitors but it doesn't support anything higher than 16bit / 44.1khz (I am recording in 24bit / 48khz).
Thanks for ideas.
-gman

[Riverdog]

According to the manual that I just looked up on the internet, you need to connect the speakers to outputs 1 AND 2 to get stereo output... Get rid of the 1/8 stereo adapter and get to separate mono adapters and plug them into outputs one and two...

Yes, the connectors are tip-ring-sleeve, but that's because of the pro-audio specs you get with the unit... Some hardware you purchase may have "balanced" outputs that are TRS connections...

Hope this helps...

[gcounselman]

Hello,

Basically the ouputs of the Delta work in stereo pairs, so out 1 is left, and out 2 is right. You’ll need to get a y-adapter cable for the jack you got so you can run two mono ¼ inch jacks into 1 and 2, then have those merge into a single stereo ¼ inch jack which will go into your current cable.

Matt Nelson
M Audio/Midiman Tech Support

this is my reply email from M-Audio. Thanks Riverdog! That is basically the same thing he is telling me. :-)