10/27/03 Hello John,
You indicate you're concerned about the constantly switching of cables on the motherboard eventually fatiguing the connectors on the motherboard. A very good concern. But there's an easy solution. Get a stereo cable extender. Plug the male end of the stereo cable extender into the motherboard and leave it plugged in at all times. Then use the female end to make the switches between the DVD output and the CD/Tape output. It will be more convenient to make the switches and it's a lot cheaper buying another stereo cable extender as opposed to buying another motherboard. Or you could do the same thing with a stereo-Y cable if they make such a beast. I know they make mono-Y cables, but I'm not certain about the stereo-Y cable. You could always make your own stereo-Y cable, I suppose. Plug the base of the Y cable into the motherboard. Plug the DVD into one arm of the Y cable , and the CD/Tape into the other arm. Now you don't have to reconnect anything when you want to record from the DVD or the CD/Tape. Using a Y cable you may experience a little signal loss, but you simply increase the volume level on that input source. No big deal and you won't hurt your motherboard. And because you're running line-out from the DVD and CD/Tape jacks into the motherboard's line-in, you won't hurt the motherboard. Even if you Y both the DVD and CD/Tape sound sources together into the motherboard and record both simultaneously, you won't hurt the motherboard. Just remember to always test your recording first at low volume levels until you find exactly where the highest volume on the sound source occurs. Keeping playing that spot on the sound source so you can set your record volume to its maximum level without getting distortion. Then record the song. This way, the quiet places will be quiet and the loudest places won't distort during recording. It sounded like you hadn't been doing this "record level test" in a previous post, so I put the advice for you in this post. Since you're not recording a "live" source, there's no excuse for you to have any distortion in your recording to hard disk. Not trying to put any pressure on you, really I'm not. :) Stephen. > I still need to know whether it is possible to splice my normal > dvd audio cable together > with this new external CD/tapedeck player audio cable and > connect both to the mobo. > Will this blow things up, or is it OK to have two seperate > devices on the same socket?
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