Computer Tech question

So i have an old pair of Boston Acoustic speakers that came with an old Gateway2000 that i had.. here is the problem.. the audio input for the speakers is ANALOG.. so they only work with the soundboard that was in that specific gateway series... so here is my question.. could i buy a Analog to Digital Audio Converter box to make these speakers work with anything?

like so...

 

If you have a coax or or toslink input on your computer then that would be fine. If you are simply trying to connect a pair of speakers with the classic red and white cables and have your average 3.5mm heaphone port you can save yourself a whole shitload of money by buying an RCA to 3.5mm adapter that looks something like this.



Hopefully that was helpful

One of these adapters usually goes for around 5$

 

no that was not helpful.. thank you.. i don't think it answered my question at least... see.. i have what you posted already.. well slightly different.. same idea.. its a 6' RCA to 3.5mm that i use to connect my stereo system to my laptop... actually stole a new one today from Wally world.. because i bent the prong on my old one and it wouldn't touch properly so it rarely worked..


here is the deal with these speakers i have.. They are BA735's.. which was an amazing set of speakers that came with the Gateway2000.. they bump.. 1 sub.. 2 satellites.. the soundboard for the Gateway2000 was SB Live!.. which is an Analog audio card.. all cards today are set for Digital.. meaning these speakers WILL NOT work with modern electronics since the input to them must be ANALOG.. so my question is.. could i connect these ANALOG speakers to a DIGITAL device if i was to use an ANALOG>DIGITAL AUDIO CONVERTER

 

yes

 

positive? or just throwing it out there?

 

Yea you can i think

 

Actually the SB live was a card that had an analog connection that worked as a digital connection which is what those speakers used. If you are using windows xp try just changing the audio from analog to digital as it seems it made them work for most people on the internet. There seem to be two different types of BA735 though, one with an analog in (which is where setting the audio signal to digital in windows will make it work if you are using xp), and ones with a digital in only which this won't work for.

 

i have the Digital series

 

also i've tried directly connecting them to my lappy.. no dice

 

Did you change the signal source from analog to digital? Otherwise the computer won't be sending the speakers the right signal which results in a non-static type of speaker distortion.

Otherwise then yeah a digital converter is probably in order