On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:36:14AM -0400, Larry Troxler wrote: > Wow. They do this using that unsheilded wire on a ribbon cable that goes from > the CD rom drive to the sound card? I never bothered connecting the two on > any of my PCs, because if I wanted to play audio CD's, I certainly would > want to do it on my seperate stereo system, and not from a noisy PC. > The audio levels from the CD will be reasonably high, the source impedance will be quite low, and though you mention unshielded cable I think shielded cable is more usual for this job. If you have a pair of speakers hooked up to your sound card and no other sound system in the room, and want to play "music while you work" this is a convenient and acceptable solution. This applies to many PC users in the world. If you want to take the audio off a CD to store in the computer, process, edit and copy to another CD or other digital media with the best sound quality, possibly for semi=-professional purposes - no, it's not the best way. In answer to your last question: no - I've never done it that way! -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
