> From: Gerald Uhlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List)
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:00:09 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List)
> Subject: Cheap External Audio connector for iMac?
>
> Hello iMac listers,
>
> Is there any kind of adapter that fits in the iMac's mic input jack? I want
> to connect some stereo equipment to it, but (unless I'm reading it wrong) it
> requires an "extended" stereo mini-plug, such as those used on the PlainTalk
> microphones. I know about the little round USB audio adapter thingee from
> Griffin, but who wants to spend $35 for some gadget when a $5.00 adapter
> would do the same thing? What do the rest of you use to get external audio
> into your iMacs?
Plugging stereo equipment straight into the iMac's mic input is fine. That
Griffin adapter you mention is only for Macs that have NO audio input.
The PlainTalk microphones uses an extra long plug, because it has a built in
pre-amp, inside the microphone. The extra long plug allows it to get power
from the Mac, to run the amplifier, allowing the mic to put out line-level,
instead of mic-level audio.
What you can't do is plug a normal (un-amplified) microphone into the Mac's
mic input.
> What if I bought a PlainTalk microphone, cut off the microphone, attach a
> standard 1/8" (female) stereo plug from Radio Shack? Would that work?
That would be a Bad Thing. You'd be sending the voltage that was supposed
to be powering the PlainTalk mic's amplifier into your stereo's outputs, and
they probably wouldn't like that. Also, it just wouldn't work.
A standard stereo plug has three contacts for stereo audio (common, left,
and right), a PlainTalk plug uses three contacts for power plus mono audio
(common, mono audio, power).
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