Nine Inch Nails, boring funeral, being an idiot

[pphaneuf]

Saw Nine Inch Nails friday, initially with a number of friends (including pdage, who I hadn't seen in a good while), but then with gregorama and g_g_68 (who I've only sort of met, but we've shared water already (but not in that way!)). Was all right, but my suspicions are confirmed, NIN is mostly part of my history rather than of my present. They played one of my

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[cpirate]

What kind of cables does your TV demand? I have an old tape deck with RCA inputs hooked up as my computer speakers via a headphone-to-RCA adapter, to which I then plug in my headphones on occasion. If your TV exports RCA, and you have such an archaic beast around, you could probably get something going. Or you could just buy an RCA-to-headphone converter, I guess, which is probably simpler if you can find one. You could even make one, they're pretty damned simple!

[pphaneuf]

Yeah, I have a few RCA to 1/8" male cables, but I need RCA to 1/8" female. This thing obviously has been designed to be plugged into a sound system, which you'd plug your headphones into. I've been scouring Future Shops and The Sources for those. I might end up having to make them...

[cpirate]

Ah. Radio Shack (sorry, "The Source") may have what you're looking for, either a straight RCA-to-female-1/8" or a 1/8" female-female gender-bender. Or you could go to some shady surplus store at St. Laurent and Ontario and pick up a cheap tape deck :)

[pphaneuf]

Yeah, I'd have thought they'd have what I'm looking for, but didn't have much luck to the one I've been to. It was kind of a small one, though.

I'm feeling rather silly at the idea of buying a whole tape deck as a gender-bender. :-)

[cpirate]

If I wasn't using mine (and you didn't mind absolutely appalling sound quality) I'd lend it to you, since yeah, it's otherwise a bit useless :)

Maybe this can be motivation for me to finally get myself some sensible speakers.