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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIx audio
Summary: Not what I meant...
Keywords: Audio Noise IIx
Message-ID: <1422@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Jan 90 05:41:24 GMT
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Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <2737@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>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)

That's not quite what I meant. I still get hiss when a sound is playing.
Before I was getting CONSTANT hiss.  That was driving me gaga.

--Mike