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Michael@zoec.demon.co.uk (Michael Clements) wrote:

>Are there any techies who can say whether it is possible to use or
>modify a standard UK telephone handset (not a mobile phone but the
>plastic part you hold listen and talk into) on a conventional phone to
>work with my Soundblaster 16 soundboard to replace the microphone &
>speakers normally used when making internet phone contact.

The problem is that the handsets that you normally use with sound
cards have two pairs of wires, one for the microphone and the other
for the speaker, whereas a phone line uses just one pair for both.  If
the headset uses two pairs (while the phone itself uses one pair) it
shouldn't be too hard to do a direct hookup?  I'm not sure if this is
the case however.

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Luke Jackson