On 2022-05-06, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > >> I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I >> would have thought they would be protected electrically from such >> events occurring.
I doubt there is much protection on line-out connections. > The sound chips have failed on both my workstations' motherboards > over the last five years or so. They only seem to last a couple of > years. Each time I've plugged in a USB dongle instead, and both of > those have now failed. That's very odd. > Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. IMO, that's the logical conclusion. I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of them over the years). -- Grant
