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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 192002" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>The Apple Pro speaker are passive speaker, that means they have no integrated amplifier, and therefore need to be hooked up an amplifier (the Pro speaker connector on the iMac G4 and PowerMac G4 since the Digital audio is an amplified sound output).</p><p></p><p>This also means they don't need any power per se...without an amp, you won't hear much when connecting them to a regular line out. And you certainly would fry them by connecting them to the Firewire power pins.</p><p></p><p>The iFire has an integrated amp for the Pro speaker.</p><p></p><p>$60 seems a bit hefty for the iFire...you should find it around $30-40 max.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 192002, member: 5184"] The Apple Pro speaker are passive speaker, that means they have no integrated amplifier, and therefore need to be hooked up an amplifier (the Pro speaker connector on the iMac G4 and PowerMac G4 since the Digital audio is an amplified sound output). This also means they don't need any power per se...without an amp, you won't hear much when connecting them to a regular line out. And you certainly would fry them by connecting them to the Firewire power pins. The iFire has an integrated amp for the Pro speaker. $60 seems a bit hefty for the iFire...you should find it around $30-40 max. [/QUOTE]
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