[linux-audio-user] Speaker Jack

[Ian Bell]

On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:18 pm, linuxmedia4 at netscape.net wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just bought a new system. It has integrated sound on the Mother
> Board. There is a jack marked "spk" (obviously the speaker jack). But
> the manual refers to that jack as "line-out" I was always under the
> impression (just an assumption) that "line-out" and the speaker jack
> put out completly different voltage levels (and we know how dangerous
> it could be to plug things into the wrong voltage levels).


Thr voltage levels for line out and speaker outputs on PC cards are very 
similar.  The only real difference is the load they can drive.  Any output 
that can drive a speaker can easily drive a line input load.

HTH

Ian