for the longest time the way ive listened to music or youtube videos on my computer has either been through a set of 4 altec lansing speakers (with sub) that are pretty nice, or through headphones, but here's the catch. The ones ive been using until recently are a pair of early 1970s david reimer rystyl hs 300d headphones, the problem, a large style jack. Wont fit into my laptop. Next to my laptop there's a cassette deck that I occasionaly record mixtapes on, so to listen to music one day, I had the idea to run an RCA to aux cable from the REC input of the tape deck to my laptop (which is how I record tapes as well) and then put a blank cassette in the deck, turn the deck on REC Pause, (record preview mode for volume and quality check where it lets audio through) and plug the headphones into the large style phone jack. to control the volume ive used the input level control on the tape deck.
anyway, the reason im making this topic is because my brother just gave me his roomates dated but functional retired Logitech g430 headset and I thought "Problem Solved!"
I was wrong, first of all, my laptop has only 3 usb ports, one of which is already my mouse, the second is taken up by a webcam (also my current gaming mic) the third alternates between an SD card reader and my driving force pro wheel for racing games. I want a seamless system here, id rather not unplug and replug things for different purposes for example if I wanted to play a game on my speakers (my normal way) id have to unplug the headset and replug the webcam because you cant use the headset mic without the headset. same applies for video calls obviously. I could simply plug the green side of the headset into the audio port, but that would leave the pink end flapping about
the other issue is that even on full volume the headset isn't nearly as loud as id like for music listening, so I thought to myself, hmm, If I ran an aux to rca to my tape deck, then plugged the green end into the phone jack using an adapter on rec pause I could solve my usb port problem and turn the tape deck into a pre-amp thus making the headset louder and leaving me with my webcam mic.
Im right back where I started, the only diffence is that the pink side of the headset is dangling down off the tape deck and the damn cord for the headset is ten feet long and I can see myself running it over with my chair and tbh, the old headphones sound just as good
TLDR I had a really complicated system and new equipment didn't make it any less complicated
