Usb works fine for me. I use a steelseries Siberia USB "soundcard" though. 

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On 2 nov 2010, at 07:39, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote:

> The MacBook Pro appears to have two audio connectors, as you say, that double 
> as analogue and digital inputs and outputs.
> 
> From experience, the analogue inputs are line level, and so you will need 
> something to boost the audio level from a microphone.  As the  computer works 
> totally with digital signals, all analogue has to be converted to digital, 
> either in the computer or via an external converter.  If you are using a 
> simple dictation microphone, I doubt if you will need anything more than a 
> simple USB microphone adaptor, such as the Griffin iMic.
> 
> Andrew
> (Shoreham)
> 
> On 1 November 2010 01:06, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been trying to educate myself about mic inputs for my Mac Pro to little 
> avail. It has:
> 
> Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports
> 
> Analog stereo line-level input and output minijack [but don't 'inferior' macs 
> have digital line in this way?)
> 
> or there is USB (I have a half-decent USB mic)
> 
> 
> 
> Are there any mics that use the TOSLINK ports? or are they strictly for real 
> audio buffs running soundcards and mixers and such?
> 
> I ask because i'm using Dragon Dictate-supplied mic which plugs into a USB 
> adaptor and wondered if I could have something better than audio-converted to 
> digital.
> 
> cheers
> 
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