On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:22:36 GMT, AZ Nomad
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:08:13 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:



You could attenuate the speaker outputs and feed those into the sound
card.
Why do people insist on giving advice for tricks they've never personally
tried? Your idea won't work. Unless getting the sound of a three
year old doing razzberies is what you're looking for. Even a microphone
suspended near the speaker would be an improvement over your idea.


Why do you say this? There is no reason why the speaker output should
be particularly bad. At moderate level it should have distortion below
about 0.1%, which is inaudible for 99% of music. And of course the
idea that inserting a speaker and mic into the equation might actually
improve thing is quite laughable.


Not ideal, but it would work. If you're not up to making such things
a decent car audio place will sell them. Designed to feed an external amp
off the speaker outputs of the head unit.

No ****. This is the only solution if you need to get from a speaker
level signal to a line level input. You must attenuate the signal
somehow.

That would be why Dave said "you could attenuate the speaker outputs",
perhaps? Of course, your use of the word "somehow" is just a touch
revealing.

d

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