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David Lemson (lemson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:
>>I finally got my NeXT CD Rom. But for some reason no sounds come out of the  
>>speaker, seems to work with headphones. Is this the only way to play CD's or can  
>>I listen to them through the computer speaker?
> You can buy a stereo phono->1/8" jack cable and plug it into your
> sound box/monitor microphone input.  Then, use some sort of sound
> app to play the current input.

<Bzzzzzzt!>  <-- the sound you'll be hearing if you try this.

The outputs from the NeXT CDROM player (the RCA phono jacks) are LINE OUTs.
They are NOT microphone outputs, and as such, feeding them into your mic jacks
of either your sound box or your monitor runs the risk of damaging it.  Mic
jacks have virtually no voltage to them -- Line outs have in the neighborhood
of 1.5V peak-to-peak which, at the very least, makes for lousy "buzzy"
recordings, which isn't what Manuel wanted to do in the first place.

Your best bet is to take the CDROM's line outs and feed them into your stereo's
line in jacks to listen to discs.. (and no, not the PHONO jacks either, because
'real' phono jacks are a different breed again).

> David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
> University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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