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From: timbuck@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Timothy Buck)
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Subject: Re: Recording from CD
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Date: 1 May 91 03:48:01 GMT
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In article <ERIK.91Apr30190902@zeus.penny.telcom.arizona.edu> erik@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Erik Schumacher) writes:
>I would like to put some songs from CD on my next.  Can I just connect my
>CD player to the microphone input, or what do I have to do?  
>
>Erik Schumacher
>Optical Sciences Center
>UofA
>erik@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu

No, it's not just a matter of connecting your CD player to the mike input...
The microphone jack on the NeXT monochrome monitor is apparently mono rather
than stereo.  You need a stereo to mono adapter (I haven't gone to look for
one yet).  Please let me know if you have any success.

The experience I've had that leads me to believe the mike input is mono went
as follows:
     I got a cable that runs two RCA plugs into one mini phone plug. 
     When I connected the RCA plugs to my CD player's output and plugged
     the other end into the NeXT microphone jack and tried to record,
     the recording level was extremely high.  I tried the right only and
     the recording level was fine, but of course the sound only came out
     of the NeXT's right speaker.  Left only (where the stereo signal is
     carried) gave the same results as both left and right.

Tim Buck     <>     timbuck@gnu.ai.mit.edu, timbuck@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu, or
                    jbuck@vtssi.vt.edu