Head phone adaptor
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After pondering the Street Glide/ear bud situation I found a very simple solution. I bought a 6 foot long mini-plug extension at Fry's for $3.99. I then cut off the male plug, stripped the insulation back a couple of inches revealing a red wire and a white wire and a ground shield wire. I gathered the ground wire by twisting it together. I soldered a couple of feet of small diameter wire to the white wire. Then I removed the hot wire from the right speaker (does not matter which side) and put the red wire through the small hole in the spade connection and slid the connector back on the speaker spade. I did the same for the ground wire. Then I ran the added wire over to the left speaker and inserted it in the spade under the hot wire for the speaker. Then I ran the mini extension wire through a couple of wiring keepers and back under the top of the gas tank bib coming out just ahead of the seat. Neat, easy, cheap, non-invasive and it works.
I am a little worried about all these amp watts going to the small headphones. How is the quality of the sound? Can you turn the volume up?
There must be a product to adapt the speaker signal (after amp) for headphones. Does anyone know?
Also, it should be easy to add a console switch cutting off the ground from the bike speakers so that you can have sound only on the headphones.
Last edited by boom23; Jan 27, 2012 at 01:51 PM.
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I too tap in at the speakers and run a cable under the tank to a position right by my thigh.
i also use a radio shack inline volume control to keep the ear buds from blowing up my head
the volume of the radio needs to be above 20% or you will hear ignition noise through the buds
( the power amp always runs full out and will amplify any "noise" picked up by the system. The volume controls are in the pre-amp section, the volume of the preamp needs to be high enough to give a good ratio of music to the background "noise" in the system)
yes, the speakers play ( at a low level) when i am riding along- they are not audible to me so it doesn't really matter one way or another.- there is really no reason to complicate matters with boxes, switches or doo-dads
been doing this for about 15 years.
cost for the white radio shack 6' 1/8" stereo extension cable is about $8.
cost for the inline volume is $9
standard stereo connector is wired :
tip -left+
ring-right+
sleeve- ground
mike
i also use a radio shack inline volume control to keep the ear buds from blowing up my head
the volume of the radio needs to be above 20% or you will hear ignition noise through the buds
( the power amp always runs full out and will amplify any "noise" picked up by the system. The volume controls are in the pre-amp section, the volume of the preamp needs to be high enough to give a good ratio of music to the background "noise" in the system)
yes, the speakers play ( at a low level) when i am riding along- they are not audible to me so it doesn't really matter one way or another.- there is really no reason to complicate matters with boxes, switches or doo-dads
been doing this for about 15 years.
cost for the white radio shack 6' 1/8" stereo extension cable is about $8.
cost for the inline volume is $9
standard stereo connector is wired :
tip -left+
ring-right+
sleeve- ground
mike
Last edited by mkguitar; Feb 5, 2012 at 01:09 AM.
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