[daveh551]

I'm sure if I could find the right search terms, I could find this
topic in the archives, so please forgive my intrusion.

I have some cassettes I want to put on CD. I have access to 3
different portable stereos that will play cassettes. However, none of
them have a line out jack.

If I plug the headphone jack of the stereo into the Line In jack of my
PC, will that work? I think there will be impedance and probably level
mis-matches, but can they be adjusted for?

Thanks for any responses.

[Walt]

daveh551 wrote:


I have some cassettes I want to put on CD. I have access to 3
different portable stereos that will play cassettes. However, none of
them have a line out jack.

If I plug the headphone jack of the stereo into the Line In jack of my
PC, will that work? I think there will be impedance and probably level
mis-matches, but can they be adjusted for?

Yes, this should work. The level may be a bit high, so turn the
headphone volume down - this approach may cause signal to noise to
suffer, but we're talking cassettes here so I wouldn't get too wanked
about it. Impedance should be fine (a headphone jack will have low
impedance output and the line in of your PC will have high impedance,
making everything work out fine in the impedance dept.)

If you're serious you'd find a quality cassette player, carefully adjust
the playback EQ, speed, azimuth, and NR settings, and give the heads a
good cleaning. If you miss this stuff now, no amount of digital voodoo
will really compensate for the loss of quality - you can try, but you'll
get much better results adressing these problems now rather than later.

But, depending on the material that's on the cassettes it may not be
worth the fuss. If they're commercially recorded releases, by far the
easiest, best sounding, and most cost effective approach is to just buy
the record on CD and call it a day.

//Walt

[Laurence Payne]

On 31 Jul 2006 11:13:28 -0700, "daveh551"
wrote:

I have some cassettes I want to put on CD. I have access to 3
different portable stereos that will play cassettes. However, none of
them have a line out jack.

If I plug the headphone jack of the stereo into the Line In jack of my
PC, will that work? I think there will be impedance and probably level
mis-matches, but can they be adjusted for?

Try.