Hi Janina, I was afraid of that. I hear some of those noises when using headphones too. Not as bad as you indicate, but definitely more than on an original open speaker shipped with the devices. Chuck On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Chuck: > > I haven't tried patching back to the sound card, but I have patched into > a mixer. I hated it, and I gave up on it. There was a nasty pop every > time the Doubletalk speech started up, and every time it stopped. Also, > the signal was quite noisy. These are not things we hear from the > speaker that ships with the Doubletalk internal, or what we hear from > the external units themselves. But, it seems Doubletalk doesn't do well > with an upgraded sound system as output. Tis a shame, and I hope someone > has some good ideas about it. > -- The Moon is Full So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh