Re: OT: Ripping Tapes & LPs

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Wendy of NJ of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:24:52 +0000 (UTC), Methuselah Jones
<methuselah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The sound card doesn't have RCA jacks; it has a 1/8" line-in jack. But
I can't plug headphone output into a line jack, can I? I thought it
had to come from a line-out jack.

Headphones are line out voltages. You can't plug line out into a
MICROPHONE input, or you'll swamp your inputs. You have to plug your
headphone out into the LINE IN on your soundcard (which is also a mini
stereo phono plug). If you only have one audio input, you can use it
but you'll probably have to keep the volume on the headphone outputs
very low. Experiment and see.

OK, so I finally got around to trying this. I got a cable with male-to-
male mini plugs, plugged one end into my Walkman, and the other into my
card's line-in jack. If I turn the volume on the Walkman all the way up
(I started with it low), and my computer's volume all the way up, I can
hear the sound very faintly. I assume this means I need an amplifier?
Would a headphone amplifier be right for this job?

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worlds to conquer. How very much alike we are, I thought."
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