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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems playing stereo sound through SEx stereo sound jack
Message-ID: <365@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 6 Apr 89 18:50:09 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <852@orbit.UUCP> pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby) writes:
>On the issue of sound on the SE/30 (SEx), have others also noticed that there
>is far less power running out the stereo jack than there was on the SE?  I
>have a pair of Sony Walkman-size extension speakers, and they were "Loud and
>Proud" on my SE--perfect for demonstrations to a group.  Now that I have my
>SE/30, I get very little volume from them, even with the volume set to 7.  Did
>Apple go with a lower/higher impedance on the jack in the SE/30?

I did hear that they lowered the volume.  The idea was that the old
volume was dangeriously loud if someone plugged in headphones. 

Seems they figured that you couldn't drive *much* of a speaker at the
old level so they threw in a resistor-or-two to make it at least
useable as a multi-thousand dollar Walkman.

I guess you will have to get a pair of amplified speakers.  Apple
*once* sold Bose Roommates just for such use--but that's a different
subject.

Kent Borg
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