6ohm speakers and DVD player

buy a kit for a larger amplifier?

kits upto several hundered watts are available, anything that can handle "8 or 4 ohm" speakers should be fine with 6 ohm speakers.

don't want to buy a kit? try the datasheet for an amplifier module (pick one...)

bye

You're starting with crappy old car speakers and a $30 DVD player right?

How much are you planning to spend on building your own amp to be the center of your home audio system?

What level of electronics experience do you think it would take?

Would an audio amplifier kit be good enough quality for you?

You thought that building your own would be cheaper right?

Why are you starting with the 5.1 audio outputs with the intention of really only using 2 channels?

Why not run two RCA cables from the 1 V p-p outputs on the DVD player to the aux inputs on a stereo amp?

Also, This is not the best usenet newsgroup for that project.

I wanted to build it myself for the challenge. I will take your suggestion and look at kits.

Thankyou both.

Building it yourself or from a kit can be fun and educational. so if thats what you want to do, go for it. But if money is an issue, you can probably get a used stereo amp at Goodwill, a garage sale, or on an online auction for little money and all you need to do is connect the speakers and run some input cables. I used to build a lot of stuff, and most of them worked, but it was costly and time consuming. These days it dont make much sense when there are so many cheap working used items for something like this.

I have my DVD player connected to my stereo aux inputs and it sounds great. The stereo is a receiver and amp combo from the 70's that I paid $10 for (speakers were bought separately).

Jim

A lot of used equipment is a challenge in itself. Its rare to have everything tunned up and working perfectly. Some things often go unoticed, and takes equipment to really test it out. Simple things like oscillocopes and signal generators are a must. You can use a computer. All my first audio stuff was a kit. Amplifier, tuner, speakers from scratch. 9th grade stuff.

greg