On 3/4/06, John Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Mar 2006, at 22:24, Sean Contenti wrote: > > > Any local electronics/computer/stereo shop should have a few different > > options for you. You can buy a jack that goes mini (headphone jack) to > > RCA if you already have cables, you can buy a cable that has the jack > > on the end if you don't (or even if you do, quality will be better), > > you can buy a cable that goes RCA > headphone right out of the stereo, > > so you run the thinner headphone wire to the stereo (last choice, they > > kinda suck). Unless I completely missed the point, and you are having > > problems getting the output to actually come out of the headphone > > jack, in which case, I can't help ya. > > Thanks! > > I am sitting here listening to streaming radio (Swiss Classic, > Berne) through my stereo. However, the sound is kind of muddy. If I > listen to it with earbuds directly off the headphone jack in the > R3240 it sounds great. But something must be off. > > I plugged it into the Aux jack on the back of the stereo. On the > front panel this can be selected with either the Video or TV/Sat > buttons. Each button can be altered with three "sound fields" -- > virtual dolby, cinema or music hall. Virtual dolby sounds slightly > better than the other two, but it's still muddy. The rest of the > settings are the same as when I listen to local stations through the > tuner or CDs with the CD player -- that is, bass, treble, etc. are all > set at the midpoint. > > The volume is also pretty low, although I can bump up RealPlayer > or the stereo. It sounds better if I bump up RealPlayer more than > the stereo. > > I tried a few other stations and all are muddy. I suspect there is > something that is not matching properly, but I don't know what it > might be. > > Are there any other alternatives? Maybe someone sells an in- > between device that would compensate for whatever is wrong?
By "muddy" do you mean that it has a low hum in the background? Most likely you have a ground loop. Do you have your laptop plugged into the wall? I assume you probably do. Try unplugging it and see if it goes away. If so, you have a ground loop. Basically, the computer ground and stero ground are the same and form a circuit path through the audio. If you can isolate one or the other, it should go away. A 3-2 prong plug adapter will do this somewhat nicely. You lose the ground on one (probably the laptop) so it's a little less safe, but shouldn't really be a problem. Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
