in theory? sure, I think most, if not all SB16s have a PC speaker input.

so connect the motherboards speaker out to the SB16s PC speaker input and just wire the internal speaker to the speaker output of the SB16.

though I really don't see why you would want that.
you'd lose both the authentic PC speaker sound from your IBM as well as the sound quality your SB16 could provide.

alsgeeklab wrote on 2021-03-31, 11:52:

I have an SB16 in my ibm 5162 XT. All I want to know is- is it possible to hook up the output of the sb16 fairly elegantly to ou […]
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I have an SB16 in my ibm 5162 XT.
All I want to know is- is it possible to hook up the output of the sb16 fairly elegantly to output via the internal ibm pc speaker. And also have it still operate as a normal pc speaker? How would one achieve this?

At this point, my external speakers are a bit overkill and I think the original IBM speaker was just fine for mono sound.

Cheers,
Al

Hi,

Did you try my MOD Player, Mod Master ?
To play .MOD in 16Bit at more than 30KHz and OPL3 Music, your external speakers will no more be overkill 😀

By the yay, I think the 5162 has a Piezoelectric speaker, so the SB16 sound may not work on it...

@FreddyV - the 5162 has a nice large speaker, just like the 5150/60 does.

I hooked up the output of the motherboard's PC speaker output to the SB16 card, and this works lovely out of externally connected speakers.

What I was wondering though is if we could have all of the audio self-contained in the PC - instead of external speakers, use the internal speaker for the SB16's output. This would give SB16 digital audio and also the PC Speaker audio through the SB16 card, outputting to the internal speaker.

I guess I could do it really inelegantly by stripping the cable on the pc speaker and wiring up crocodile clips, but that seems extreme.

That reminds me of an eastern block sound blaster card (no FM): HW Sound blaster 1.0 emulator
It used a big paper cone speaker. This was 1970s era design, I think.
Early Apple II sound boards had their own speaker, too.

A lot of Compaq computers over the last 25 years have a SB-compatible sound device on the motherboard, and the sound goes to an internal speaker, so it's not a new idea. But you can still plug external speakers in if you want; that action cuts out the internal speaker.

I don't see any issue with connecting up your own internal speaker instead, although you'll likely only get one channel.

And as said earlier, many boards have a small 2-pin socket for you to direct the original speaker sound into. You'll need to make up a cable (or find one) though.

If your SB16 has an onboard amplifier chip then that's no problem- you may even be lucky, some cards had jumpers to switch output from amplified to line level, you could probably tap in there to connect to the speaker. You may have to steal ground pin from a different header, like from unused cdrom audio input

Yes you can do this. But it would be less of a disservice to your Sound Blaster if it were an original SB or an SB 2.0.