Adapting a hi-fi's line-out to a computer's microphone input?
Adam Funk
microphone input (it doesn't have a line-in jack).
Is anyone aware of a commercially available adapter for this purpose?
Alternatively, what do I need to know to build one? Is a simple
voltage-divider sufficient for this?
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Jan Panteltje
<a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote in <7o5eo5-...@news.ducksburg.com>:
>I'd like to connect the line-level output from my hi-fi to a computer's
>microphone input (it doesn't have a line-in jack).
>
>Is anyone aware of a commercially available adapter for this purpose?
>
>Alternatively, what do I need to know to build one? Is a simple
>voltage-divider sufficient for this?
First, mic input is mono, one pin carries DC.
Yes, you can use a divider, summ the 2 stereo line outputs into one resistor.
right ---R1 ----
|-------------- mic
left --- R1 ----| -
| |
R2 |
| |
/// ///
Make R1 about 10k
Make R2 600 Ohm
Mike input:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080805103936515&board_id=21&model=Xonar+D2X&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
mel...@my-deja.com
I would just get a sound card with a Line in on it? I think I spent
$20 on mine and it has one, I can't believe you don't. But then my
Uncle's TV doesn't have Closed Captioning ability either so I'm ready
to believe just about anything at this point.
Jan Panteltje
mel...@my-deja.com wrote in
<9ea99653-5326-46d0...@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>:
>I would just get a sound card with a Line in on it? I think I spent
>$20 on mine and it has one, I can't believe you don't. But then my
>Uncle's TV doesn't have Closed Captioning ability either so I'm ready
>to believe just about anything at this point.
Asus eePC 701 only has mike and headphone out,
so you can for example connect a headset for Skype.
It is not intended for recording from audio sources.
But you can download audio and play via the speakers or headphones.
Nothing wrong with that.
Making a real good quality recording on a PC requires a top end soundcard.
Not an emu10 based soundblaster for example.
My experience with some 20$ no-name soundcards is that they lay now in some
cupboard... noisy.
Adam Funk
>> I'd like to connect the line-level output from my hi-fi to a computer's
>> microphone input (it doesn't have a line-in jack).
> I would just get a sound card with a Line in on it? I think I spent
> $20 on mine and it has one, I can't believe you don't. But then my
> Uncle's TV doesn't have Closed Captioning ability either so I'm ready
> to believe just about anything at this point.
It's a laptop. Maybe I should consider an external USB device with a
line-in jack?
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Adam Funk
> On a sunny day (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:30:31 +0100) it happened Adam Funk
><a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote in <7o5eo5-...@news.ducksburg.com>:
>
>>I'd like to connect the line-level output from my hi-fi to a computer's
>>microphone input (it doesn't have a line-in jack).
>>
>>Is anyone aware of a commercially available adapter for this purpose?
>>
>>Alternatively, what do I need to know to build one? Is a simple
>>voltage-divider sufficient for this?
>
> First, mic input is mono, one pin carries DC.
I'd forgotten about that ... maybe I should just look into an external
device with line-in.
> Yes, you can use a divider, summ the 2 stereo line outputs into one resistor.
[snipped nice diagram]
Thanks for the details, however!