Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers
On 2022-05-06 05:24, Grant Edwards wrote: Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. IMO, that's the logical conclusion. I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of them over the years). I've never had an audio chip of any sort fail either on any of my computers. Even the ones plugged into my Denon AVR in the den - my old computer was 13-14 years old when I replaced it a couple years ago and it was used everyday with the AVR. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers
On Friday, 6 May 2022 13:24:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > > Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. > > IMO, that's the logical conclusion. Whence my optimism in replacing them. > I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I > ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of > them over the years). Hmm. -- Regards, Peter.
[gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers
On 2022-05-06, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > >> I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I >> would have thought they would be protected electrically from such >> events occurring. I doubt there is much protection on line-out connections. > The sound chips have failed on both my workstations' motherboards > over the last five years or so. They only seem to last a couple of > years. Each time I've plugged in a USB dongle instead, and both of > those have now failed. That's very odd. > Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. IMO, that's the logical conclusion. I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of them over the years). -- Grant
