Sound Card in iMac - full specs??

[Mal Thomas]

Anyone know what the full specs of the sound card are in a 24" iMac ? Model
before the current one... 2.4ghz

Scoured the 'net but can only find a general spec.

TIA

Cheers
Mal
Oz

[Jolly Roger]

In article <C4B6866C.280C%drac...@bigpond.com>,
Mal Thomas <drac...@bigpond.com> wrote:

There's no sound card. The audio chip is included on the motherboard.
You might try http://everymac.com to see if they list it for your
particular model.

What problem are you trying to solve?

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[Mal Thomas]

Thanks. No problems my friend, just curious. I'm a bit of music nutter, so
I like to understand what's under the hood.

Will try the link you suggested.

Thanks
Mal
Oz

On 30/07/08 9:37 PM, in article
jollyroger-2A587...@news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger"

[Malcolm]

Full specs are here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Conceptual/HWTech_Audio/Articles/Audio_implementation.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003978-SW28_1200331167>
Scroll

down for earlier models.

[Mal Thomas]

Bingo !

If you ever pop over to Perth - there's a beer waiting for you.

Thanks.
Mal
Oz

On 30/07/08 10:11 PM, in article 2008073010114116807-malcolm@invalid,

[Telstar]

"Malcolm" <malcolm@invalid> wrote in message
news:2008073010114116807-malcolm@invalid...

The grounding warning box is worth a thought. On Laptops there is no line
out. Therefore, are they compromised to green line ground? Most PCs do not
have a separate line out that is electrically different than headphone.

[bi...@mix.com]

Telstar <no...@none.net> writes:

> The grounding warning box is worth a thought. On Laptops there is no line
> out. Therefore, are they compromised to green line ground? Most PCs do not
> have a separate line out that is electrically different than headphone.

I have not had any problem with this. I feed the headphone output, after
terminating both channels with 32 ohm load resistors, into unbalanced analog
inputs of various mixers, all of which are grounded one way or another to
same "green line" ground in the AC mains. The Apple notebook power supplies
have two pin AC mains plugs (no grounding pin). In the USA one side of the
AC mains is a neutral, which is essentially (usually) at ground potential.
I have not checked to see how well the power supplies isolate the computer
from the AC mains, but then that's because it has never been a problem for
me. If it was, you could run it on its battery, without the power supply.

The newer Apple laptops have optical I/O, which not only avoids electrical
grounding problems, it sounds a lot better too.

Billy Y..