4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
9:14 a.m.
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!
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