I use my dectalk express in the line-in on my sound card. It gives it a much richer sound, and my dectalk has never really been loud enough. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:13 AM Subject: Re: doubletalk still going strong Perhaps my age is showing? When I say "mixer," I mean hardware, not a software mixer via a sound card. However, this is possibly still a most relevant pointer. Thanks. Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I seem to recall something on the rc systems web site which said that > you shouldn't plug a doubletalk directly into a sound card, because of > grounding out on the pc case or something like that. I also seem to > recall that rc systems has instructions on their web site for how to > build a transformer which you can then use to plug the doubletalk > safely into your sound card. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:26:09PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Well, the catty answer is "not very successfully." But, it's not so > > difficult, really. One simply runs a cable from the headphone output > > jack to an input on a mixer. Some higher quality near field computer > > monitor speakers can even accomodate an additional input signal. > > > > One does need to be careful, though. You can damage your mixer if you > > plug the cable into a line in jack which runs at 500 ohms, because the > > headphone output is a standard 8 ohms. But, if you're careful and keep > > the volume way down, you can certainly do it. > > > > And, as I have said above, there are mixers and also near field > > monitors, that are wired to accept 8 ohm inputs. I happen to have a > > wonderful pair made by Roland some years ago. > > > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBia5L7s9z/XlyUyARAkCIAKDYwwABonpm5aWufenNB9XmMCfCxACbBQLw > IsEliOrY46pIeNuJIRSb9WA= > =wo/H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
