Soundcard to stereo?

Duffman

Hey, stupid question really but anyway..

Is there any way to connect my pc to a mini hi-fi that has no
line in input?

Lump

Well since its a mini hi-fi I assume it has no record player. I managed to connect my pc through the record player connection at the back on my stereo. As far as I know there is no other way.




John

The_Bullman

what about a car radio casette adaptor things?

would it work?

Lump

Yea i was thinkign of something like that, I didn't want to say as I havent personally tried it......techincally it *should* work.... headphone out of the sound card..... Interesting.



John

Duffman

Thought about the tape thing but the problem is that the tape mechanism is very noisy and creates background noise... ah well...

MartinHSabag

Well since its a mini hi-fi I assume it has no record player. I managed to connect my pc through the record player connection at the back on my stereo. As far as I know there is no other way

NOT GOOD !!!

The "record player" imput (Phono as usually called) is pre-amplified with a special curve called RIAA. The RIAA curve means to amplify more the high frequencies and less the lower ones. This is due to the inherent problems in the early days of manufacturing "flat-response" cartridges.
The RIAA curve is a standard for all turntables in the world.
The only turntables that don't need that are the DJ's ones as they usually come with that phono-stage built in inside them - thus you can connect them to any line input (in a mixer or amp), however if you'll check the signal comming out of the cartridge it still needs a phono stage.

and I haven't even gone into the differences between MC (moving coil) ior MM (movin magnet) cartridges and the difference in the phono stages each type requiers....

blorg

There's also a big difference in level between a phono level input and a standard line level in.

Lump

Hmmm the stereo I had at the time was a very good one, it worked.... sorry if I was missleading.



John

blorg

It's a bit of an anachronism really, most modern amps don’t have phono stages any more, and many modern turntables build the phono stage into the turntable, providing a line level output.

However if you do have a genuine phono level in on your amp, it’s not a good idea to plug a line level source into it – it’s a much higher level than expected on a phono input. At the same time, its not the sort of thing that you won't notice after doing it

Red Alert

AFAIK some amps have an internal jumper that can be set to bypass the phono stage turning the input into a standard line in.