>on 4/3/02 8:20 PM, Jim Freeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Definitely 1/8 inch to RCA plugs. I just wanted to add that my Pismo >> works best with the volume down to the lowest level. Then I adjust the >> volume on my stereo. >> >> Jim > >This is definitively NOT how you should stage the gain. You'd be better off >going middle of the road with both but conventional audio wisdom puts the >audio out of the Mac at near max and the volume of the stereo down to >maximize signal to noise. Cranking the stereo up and barely outputting >signal from the Pismo is a recipe for hiss. > >Brian >-- > >In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired... -- Yeah, I've noticed that, when using my headphones with independently adjustable volume, I have to set both the device and the headphones to about the middle, because if I turn one way up and the other way down, it either hisses in the background or "bottoms out" whenever the bass is amplified.
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