17 Dec
2013
17 Dec
'13
12:11 a.m.
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,
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