Looking for a small single amplified speaker for laptop

On a sunny day (Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:44:56 -0600) it happened snipped-for-privacy@tubes.com wrote in :

I have that, and the sound volume is enormous USB powered, but most important very very good and intelligible for speech. Price is good... And small.

I have a laptop computer which has terribly low sound volume. At home I plug it into a stereo amp. But I use this computer in my car regularly. I dont want two speakers, or anything big, or a lot of wires to fuss with. It dont even have to be stereo, as long as both channels are combined into one speaker.

I could buy a small amp board and make something, but by the time I buy the amp board, a speaker, a box, and wires, it will likely cost more that something I can buy. That is, if they sell anything to fit my needs. I would prefer something that plugs into the speaker output and is powered from USB, but a 12V input for power would work too.

It dont need to be loud or powerful. I just want to hear the computer.

Have any of you seen something that will fit my description?

Thanks

plenty of options. LM386 is as simple as it gets, TBA820M, discretes, etc etc

NT

this computer in my car regularly.

Does your car have an audio in jack? Most of them do, now. Just get a double-ended 3.5mm-plug audio cable, and plug the computer into the car. Press the aux button on the radio, and it will play the computer sound through the car radio system.

Jon

Den mandag den 30. oktober 2017 kl. 19.52.16 UTC+1 skrev snipped-for-privacy@tubes.com:

you can ignore the bluetooth part, it is just one of the ways of getting signal to the speaker, just use the minijack instead

I have USB and minijack on my laptop, which is an old Lenovo T-43. with XP, But that computer dont have Bluetooth. I'm not exactly sure what the bluetooth would be needed for if the speaker is connected to USB and minijack. But I'll be honest, I dont know anything about bluetooth except that I was able to transfer my contact list from my old cellphone to the new one, when I got a new phone. (not a smartphone). I once thought bluetooth was only for phones, but I heard that some new computers have it too. I guess its time I read up on bluetooth....

Thanks

I know what you mean about that input jack on newer car radios. I have a friend who connects his phone to that thing and has music on the phone. However, my older car dont have that, in fact the car radio dont work at all. I even planned to replace it with something newer, but that was well over a year ago. I guess car radios are not all that important to me. However, you have a good idea. I'm thinking all I would need would be a double ended stereo minijack cord. When I connect that laptop to the home stereo, I have a minijack to dual RCA jack cable.

By the way, this is the second Lenovo T-43 laptop I've had. They are good computers, but they have terrible sound volume. This one is worse than the first one I had. That one died a few years ago, and I replaced it with another one. This one has less volume than that first one had.

Ok, that sounds good. I kind of know what the bluetooth part of it does, because I took the neighbor kid somewhere and he had a bluetooth speaker and his cellphone, and was playing music. I looked at it and there was no wire between them. I recall him saying it's bluetooth. These kids seem to know more about that cellphone stuff than us old folks. :) He did get good volume and clear sound from that thing though. (His was powered by AA batteries. He said they did not last real long). Maybe he also had a USB to power it, but my car didn't have a USB connector at the time. Now I have one that plugs into the cig. lighter, which I use to charge my phone.