On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:55:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > But the average sound card, running on the system 5 volt bus is all tapped > out at +4, clipping anything that goes above that. Indeed. +4 dBu is nearly 3.5 V pp, you can't expect much more from a single 5 V power supply. A decent 'pro' line out will be able to drive something like +20 dBV (10 V RMS) into 200 ohms. That's 1/2 W. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
