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Bridge <bridgeband@bluewin.ch> wrote:

> Steve Firth <filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Bridge <bridgeband@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > My question:
> > > What cable would be protected by the noise? Would a coaxial cable do?
> > 
> > This may sound silly, but what cable are you using at the moment? All
> > audio cables should be screened. Also what are you connecting to what?
> > The input on the G3 should be conected to a line level output from your
> > setup (i.e. tape out). Or are you talking about connecting the G3
> > headphone out to an input on your HiFi?
> 
> I'm using, I don't know the name but I'll describe, a simple audio
> cable, which has one end that plugs into the input of the G3 (where the
> little loudspeaker is drawn). I've bought a special microphone for
> PowerMacs which has an extended end, which isn't the case here. From
> this end to the other, there are two leads stuck together and dividing
> into a white plug and a red plug. These two plug go into the HiFi to my
> DAT Playback socket (which is meant for that, I think). When I have the
> time I'll snip the earth of the audio cable, I hope it's obvious which
> one it is.

The earth connection is the bit that goes round the outside (if you see
what I mean) - the signal connection is the wire that runs down the
middle of the cable, and the earth is a screen around this.

Assuming the lead has normal phono plugs on the end that you plug into
the amplifier, the earth connection is made to the outside bit of the
connector; the prong sticking out the middle is the signal connection.

At the Mac end, you've probably got a 3mm jack plug with three distinct
connections on it - the tip, a ring a bit further back, and the `body'
part.  It's the `body' connection right at the back which is usually the
earth (if the plug's metal, that means the whole thing is screened).

Rowland.


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