also sprach Rick Commo (on Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:42:03PM -0700): > I went from a SB PCI 16 to an SB PCI 128 with the same effect. It turns out > that the SB 61 (and presumably your old junker) can drive an 8-ohm load to a > decent volume. The SB PCI 128 only has a line out (ie 600 ohms). I went > out and bought a set of Altec Lansing ACS21W speakers for $19. They have an > input impedance of 10K ohms so the SB PCI 128 drives them just fine.
well, i don't have any money to spend on this. so i guess active speakers are the solution. manually changing the speakers' impedance just won't do... oh well. anyway, i was misinformed, it's actually an SB 64 PCI equivalent, CT5807 chipset as in Dell OEM. three external jacks. now, dell doesn't provide any information, and the creative page at http://soundblaster.com/products/sb64/specs.asp says line in: yes line out (front)/speaker out: yes line out (rear): yes (amplified out) auxiliary in: yes (rear out). wow. (a) there is no front. (b) there is one of those front panel audio connectors. might have to try that. (c) what do you mean - auxiliary in - rear out? the line in is an amplified line out? huh? and if the front line out is a speaker out and the rear line out is amplified, i think creative is lying. any clues from you guys? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- victor hugo
