I am grateful for many of the ideas put forth in this discussion--and I've said so previously. Your own personal contributions, though? Let's see.
You jumped in to express your displeasure at my use of the word 'ghetto' some five pages earlier in the discussion while simultaneously championing the solution of listening to two headphones at once. Then you got salty over the fact that people who know something about electrical engineering are skeptical about hooking up two amps to the same speakers at once.
Let's just say I'm really grateful for most of the comments made here and leave it at that.
Granted, I guess I did get a little "salty" over some things said here. That's my fault and I should have clarified myself a bit. I apologize.
For what it's worth (which might not be much at this point), I spent 5 years as a NICET certified industrial fire alarm and gas detection system designer before leaving the lucritive Electrical/Fire & Gas Engineering field to return to the more stable and portable Medical field. I'm not as ignorant of electrical engineering as has been assumed.
That said, I gathered from your OP that due to budget constraints, you were not looking for the
ideal solution to the problem but a
very affordable one (i.e. less than $100 closer to $50).
That's the point where I got offended by the derrogatory labeling of "ghetto". Ghetto implies laziness and lack of thoughtfulness. I think that being resourceful enough to make due with what you have even if it is less than ideal--which naturally requires cutting corners and assuming risks--is still far above ghetto. Yes, I found the term (and the others you listed) offensive. Especially in the light that some members of TB don't have the $ to buy equipment and must think out a solution. I just found the whole approach disrespectful. I think that's the point that you lost me and I became a bit hostile.
Bottom line, I was trying to offer some cost saving albiet less than ideal (which brings some risks) solutions and felt I was being met with scorn and disrespect. I suppose those feelings came from the fact that I'm
not completely ignorant about electrical engineering and I do have a background in that field. Since no one knew that and they only saw my "risky" improvised suggestions, it seem to be assumed that I'm clueless.
I became further irritated when it seemed you were not able to figure out a solution for this problem yet the ideas that others brought were not good enough. I guess for some reason that just didn't seem to make any sense. Seemed that if you don't know what do to then you don't know enough to tell others that their ideas were wrong. I guess that's not really what you were trying to do; my perception was wrong there.
In any case if you buy equipment dedicated to the purpose, as you said you would, you shouldn't have any problems. I just don't imagine that you'll be able to do so for under $50 as you stated you would prefer.
I apologize for becoming more hostile.
