Re: Adding external sound card to laptop
- From: Larry <noone@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:42:18 +0000
bastXXXette@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:49e9592d$0$1640
$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Anyone have recommendations, pro and con? Oh, my laptop runs XP
I've never seen a bad sound card, no matter how cheap. Audio is just
too easy to create. Rarely, a component, most likely an electrolytic
capacitor used as a coupling capacitor, leaks and hisses....rarely.
Specifically what's wrong with your soundcard? What software is
connected to it? Does that software have an equalizer you can tune?
The chipset in your soundcard is thousands of times better than any
audio device.
Besides, your laptop probably doesn't have a soundcard, anyways. If it
does, I want you to try UNPLUGGING it and plugging it back in several
times to the motherboard with a very thin coating of pure WD-40. Spray
a tiny bit of WD40 on your fingers and slowly wipe the board contacts
with it. If it's pins and holes spit a tiny bit of WD40 into the holes.
Dirt and corrosion work into the plug and interfere with good ground to
the motherboard and the power supplies put a stress across the connector
that makes corrosion in a humid environment. This is where the hissing
noise is coming from. Spray a stereo plug with WD-40...yes, WD-40...so
it's wet. Plug the wetted plug in and out of the various audio jacks
many times....straight in and out....not pulling at an angle. Spin it
when it's all the way in to wipe some WD-40 onto the contacts of the
board jacks. Keep the plugs wet with WD-40, but not so it's going to
run inside the laptop...just wet. Does wonders for hiss and hum and bad
grounds/connections.
A thin coating of WD-40 on a soundcard gold contact strip where it plugs
into a motherboard is like magic to clean off the corrosion and prevent
its recurrance. Again, just a thin coating is all you need, WD-40
dissolves corrosion away. Works great.
Shhh....don't squeal and brag at the store that sells that $24/can
cleaner crap made from diesel fuel. Just let it alone! You can still
use those 4 big cans you bought before we met...(c;]
Hiss on a soundcard that's not playing hiss from a file of an old record
is caused by DC current flowing through a poor ground connection between
the card and the motherboard...usually the ground pins.
Obviously, I don't sell soundcards...(c;]
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Larry
I had setup to do a DJ gig but needed to pee. I hadn't booted up the
computer and its software, yet, so hid my MP3 sellphone inside the
console plugged into the beast to keep them dancing while I was out.
Noone knew the difference....until someone saw me unplug my phone when I
got back...(c;] Then, they all had to get their MP3 players out and try
plugging them into the beast....I already have their reservation for
next year....dancing until the hotel threw us all out....
.
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