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teddysmum
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I have an ancient but powerful Sony HCD XB6 (one of these http://www.preciolandia.com/ec/equipo-de-sonido-sony-hcdxb6-i-sierra-de-6nu966-a.html) which has brilliant sound, but will need professional cleaning as it's been in store for years, so is full of dust.
My question is : If I joined the headphones socket of my laptop to the mike in socket of this stereo, would I be able to use its fantastic sound quality to paly from my laptop?
My question is : If I joined the headphones socket of my laptop to the mike in socket of this stereo, would I be able to use its fantastic sound quality to paly from my laptop?
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I have an ancient but powerful Sony HCD XB6 (one of these http://www.preciolandia.com/ec/equipo-de-sonido-sony-hcdxb6-i-sierra-de-6nu966-a.html) which has brilliant sound, but will need professional cleaning as it's been in store for years, so is full of dust.
My question is : If I joined the headphones socket of my laptop to the mike in socket of this stereo, would I be able to use its fantastic sound quality to paly from my laptop?
Unlikely, basically they don't match.
A headphone jack is designed to drive headphones not feed an amplifiers inputs - explained in more detail here.:doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:0 -
I have to go out , now, so will read in detail when I get back.
The headphones out socket on my laptop is the one used to plug in the connection to my Harmon Kardan pc speakers/subwoofer, so that end is fine ?0 -
The sound quality would be abysmal due to distortion caused by overdriving the mic input, you'd be better off using the Line or Aux input instead (if it has one).My question is : If I joined the headphones socket of my laptop to the mike in socket of this stereo, would I be able to use its fantastic sound quality to paly from my laptop?Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
It has paired sockets for 'phono' (taking the turntable which has never been used) and 'video (audio)'(which the handbook says is for playing vhs video sound through). Would one of these work If I bought another joining lead which has two jacks at one end, instead of the one which goes with the Harmon Kardan setup ?0
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Get a Behringer UCA202, plug it in to a USB port on the laptop, and connect the twin outputs from the Behringer to the twin video inputs on the Sony sound system.0
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It's the video (audio) sockets you want to use in conjunction with a 3.5mm stereo jack to 2x RCA Phono lead (example below)It has paired sockets for 'phono' (taking the turntable which has never been used) and 'video (audio)'(which the handbook says is for playing vhs video sound through). Would one of these work If I bought another joining lead which has two jacks at one end, instead of the one which goes with the Harmon Kardan setup ?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/310806751455?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
IQuiet_Spark wrote: »It's the video (audio) sockets you want to use in conjunction with a 3.5mm stereo jack to 2x RCA Phono lead (example below)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/310806751455?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108
Is this for use with the laptop USB or the headphones out as with the HK setup ?0 -
Use USB as described in #6 - you'll get better results than with headphone out.0
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Personally I would use the lead posted by Quiet Spark in post 7.
The 'headphone' socket in a laptop is just really an audio line out, and as you say teddysmum, connects fine to external speakers etc, and will sound great connected to your old stereo system.
I suppose if you were really into HiFi you could buy the USB soundcard thing. But unless the files you want to play are high bit rate lossless files, you won't really get the benefit IMO.0 -
I suppose if you were really into HiFi you could buy the USB soundcard thing. But unless the files you want to play are high bit rate lossless files, you won't really get the benefit IMO.
The OP. will get the benefit with anything. Headphone sockets on laptops can be noisy blighters, and using the UCA202 bypasses them.0
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