-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel James wrote: | You mean extract the audio through the IDE cable? I tried this, for supposedly | better sound quality, but I found the increase in noise from the drive | spinning faster negated any audio quality benefit Aha. This is what I was aiming for. I've a fairly quiet drive. Can you remember how you went about accessing the signal from the IDE cable? | If your onboard sound chipset does not have an analogue CD input, has it got a | digital audio input? Some CD-ROM drives have a digital audio out connector I have inspected and found the appropriate CD analogue audio connector on the motherboard. I'll go and fetch myself a cable for this. I'm going to start a new thread on SPDIF as I'm about to digress from the subject above. Thanks Hartmut, Daniel, Steve, Nick for your advice. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+rY9psUUdIDHrdAURAjSgAKCYlfw9ng5TIyyydt7ehihvyOgw5wCgjsIh yrSBGkjx/Mstc/KrNJbMx5U= =Zh+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----