Red Squirrel
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I have two PCs, Windows machine for gaming and Linux for every day use, they're in my server room with long cables running to my office. Great setup, except the audio could be done better. Right now I have two audio cables coming up, then go to a splitter, then two the speakers. I probably could have put the spitter downstairs, not sure why I did it that way TBH... but needless to say, I get lot of noise doing this, as these are not even shielded.
I want to do something better, perhaps involving a mixer in the server room where the PCs are and one amplified cable going up. I imagine that would be better for less noise. Willing to change speakers if I have to, as I don't think you can feed regular computer speakers with an amplified signal as it's expecting a non amplified one.
What would you recommend to accomplish this? A full blown mixer board/amp is probably overkill. Is it perhaps just the thing of using shielded cables and keeping it the way it is now?
Originally was going to use the KVM switch's audio feature, but I kind of want both PCs to be able to produce sound at same time, like I might decide to watch something on a side screen while playing a game or something.
I want to do something better, perhaps involving a mixer in the server room where the PCs are and one amplified cable going up. I imagine that would be better for less noise. Willing to change speakers if I have to, as I don't think you can feed regular computer speakers with an amplified signal as it's expecting a non amplified one.
What would you recommend to accomplish this? A full blown mixer board/amp is probably overkill. Is it perhaps just the thing of using shielded cables and keeping it the way it is now?
Originally was going to use the KVM switch's audio feature, but I kind of want both PCs to be able to produce sound at same time, like I might decide to watch something on a side screen while playing a game or something.