USB Powered Speakers

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Programmer In Training <pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:

> I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand
> new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ...

If "speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins" doesn't
work, you might want to try a power adapter that has a USB host
connector.  (I've seen such at Fry's, intended for devices like
iPods that were designed to recharge their internal batteries
from a USB port.)  This would effectively convert your current
set to wall-powered, which might be less costly than a new set.

WRT the suggestion to hack something together, I wouldn't suggest
attempting it unless you're quite sure of what would be involved.
It wouldn't be exactly difficult, but getting something backwards
-- or connecting to the +12 instead of the +5 supply -- would at
least let all the magic blue smoke out of the speakers :)