Hook up computer speakers to home stereo?

Zeon

So my uncle just called me with an interesting question. I have no idea how to help him.

He has a set of fairly high end computer speakers. He also has a stereo receiver in his garage. He wants to hook up the computer speakers, which have the standard 1/8th inch (headphone) plugs, to the stereo receiver, which has the standard "clamp" style connectors (the kind where the wire threads in and it "clamps" down onto them).

I have no idea how you would make this work. Im imaging a wire with an 8th inch female adapter on one end, and bare wire on the other. Is this about right? Do they make commercial versions of these, or is it something id have to solder together myself? I tried googling it but i couldnt find anything, most people want to hook stereos speakers up to the computer, not computer speakers up to the stereo.

bsjezz

surely the stereo receiver has a headphone out jack?

Zeon

I havent seen it yet (im going over tomorrow for thanksgiving), but he said it didnt. Im guessing if it does, its a 1/4" jack, which will help. The speakers have 3 connectors, left, right and subwoofer. Im assuming you could get a 1/4" to 1/8" and then a 1/8" into 3 splitter if thats the case then?

Barring that, is there any other way using the normal speaker outputs on the receiver?

bsjezz

probably, but i'd say you'd have to strip the wire and attach 3.5mm plugs yourself. but bear in mind there's a reason easy adapters like that don't exist; anything with an rca jack is probably not expecting the input of a high-powered speaker wire, so you're in danger of blowing the speakers (or just having horrible sound)