Originally posted by kamikazee@Oct 31 2002, 06:03 PM
and I would also ike to add, do not use the line out on the tape deck if you do not have to, if it has an earphone jack use it, less chance of doing any damage to the sound card, learned by experience.<snip>
The opposite my friends, the opposite. For getting good (or at least the best possible) audio quality you are supposed to use the Line Out (tape deck) to Line In (soundcard).
Never put unnecessary stuff (like earphone amplifier and volume control) in the signal path. This might be of less importance in this case (as a tapedeck in general produces a lot of distortion and noise itself) but gets more important withg other sources.
And ok, the ordinary soundcard is bad too... And the music itself might be recorded bad or worse and so on. This is a principle. Another principle should be: If your soundcard doesn't have a working Line in you might as well throw it out with the garbage and go buy a decent one.
Whoa, there is always alot to say about audio quality...
