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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIx audio
Keywords: Audio Noise IIx
Message-ID: <2737@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 16 Jan 90 13:50:17 GMT
References: <1347@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1674@zoom.CLIK.QC.CA> <1390@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1390@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:

>knob!  I can turn them down until the hiss is unnoticeable, and then I just
>turn my beep sounds, etc. on the mac UP to compensate for the speakers' low

Which means you didn't have the volume at 7 in the first place.
No wonder you got hisses, since the s/n ratio is way down at low
volumes (the volume control is, as far as I can tell, logical, i.e.
it converts the data BEFORE the d/a converter)

h+
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