On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:48:39 GMT, AZ Nomad
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:35:21 GMT, Don Pearce wrote:


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
Distortion isn't the problem. The problem is noise.


The noise gets attenuated along with the signal - there is no reason
for this connection to be any noisier than a line out connection.



idea that inserting a speaker and mic into the equation might actually
improve thing is quite laughable.

It would be an improvement over directly connecting a speaker output to a line
level input.

Dave didn't suggest that - he specifically mentioned an attenuator.

d

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