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post #21 of 34
7/6/03 at 12:05pm
if you are just looking to record a few tracks and what not, the extigy would work for you. or you could check out m-audio. the m-audio duo has two mic preamps, two line-ins, and can act as a standalone A/D convertor. it is a USB interface though, which is not optimal, but for non-pro sutff, it works great. no midi, no outputs (if i remember right), but you can get them on ebay for around 100USD. the duo is a hell of a lot better than an extigy (IMO).

there are a lot of choices at all prices. it all depends on what you want to do and how serious you are.
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post #22 of 34
7/6/03 at 12:06pm
i just re-read that post and....you cant get the outputs on ebay for 100, you can get the DUO on ebay for 100. okay.
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post #23 of 34
7/6/03 at 12:09pm
ok, last time replying to myself....the duo does have two 1/4 outputs.

i wish it was firewire or at least usb 2.0.
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post #24 of 34
7/8/03 at 1:56am
If you are planning to do recording (as in DAW type stuff) Indigo only has outputs. It does have ASIO drivers, which give great latency. If you were going to use your laptop as a "sound module" with VSTi's and such, the indigo is hard to beat.

Prana
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post #25 of 34
7/8/03 at 3:20am
yeah...i was recommending the indigo for someone else.
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post #26 of 34
7/13/03 at 6:17am
I used a y cable to setup my Oldcomputer to my minihifi song stereo, I just connected the red and white cables to the input on the stereo and the stereo jack to the sound card, in the same slot I would put computer speakers, it worked beautifully. But when I tried to put the stereo jack on my new 8887 laptop it didn't work. None of them did, and I had the latest drivers. Any thoughts?
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post #27 of 34
7/13/03 at 11:06am
the stereo jack on a laptop computer doesnt generally push enough power to drive a nice speaker setup. your first system apparently did, but the sager apparently doesnt. do you get any sound, or is it just nothing at all?
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post #28 of 34
7/13/03 at 5:32pm
I'll get a faint sound if I put the jack into the headphone jack, but it sounds like its playing from a speaker within the laptop, on all the other jacks the music continues to play through the laptop speakers, and nothing through my stereo, nothing even shows on the sound spectrum of the stereo.
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post #29 of 34
7/13/03 at 5:36pm
can't edit right now, but it is sort of hard to believe that my sager doesn't push enough power than my oldcomputer. My old one was 633mhz, and my sager is 2.8ghz. Maybe its wattage or something, or maybe my sound card isn't configured, but is there something I can do? Like get one of those extigy things...
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post #30 of 34
7/13/03 at 5:38pm
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actually the new indigo coming out has input and output




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Originally posted by someguy035
ok, last time replying to myself....the duo does have two 1/4 outputs.

i wish it was firewire or at least usb 2.0.
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post #31 of 34
7/13/03 at 9:13pm
but with the new indigo can the laptop have enough "power" to send the music to my stereo?
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post #32 of 34
7/14/03 at 1:49am
bg: im not talking about processor power. the output jack has to have enough current running through it to drive the stereo system. i dont find it hard to believe that a mac had enough power for it. i also dont find it hard to believe that sagers dont. simply put, macs are meant for that kind of stuff. are you trying to run it off the sager's headphone out? or does it have a line out...?

frankly modest: im looking for something a little different then that. but thanks.
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post #33 of 34
7/14/03 at 4:38am
yeah well my old comp is not a mac, its a crappy HP. The sager 8887 I have now (which i LOVE) does not have a line out.
http://pctorque.com/34.jpg

yet, I did not use the line out jack for my old comp to use the stereo as its speaker system. I used the same jack you would use to put normal computer speakers in, or even headphones. I have updated the driver for the audio on the sager, and I hooked up my stereo and now it works, the bass is a little weak, but I think its fine.
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post #34 of 34
7/14/03 at 4:53am
on a second listen, I realized that the volume is not as loud, so someguy (hehe) might have been right in saying that the audio card does not give a greater enough amp to push that sound that I had on my other computer, but it is better than the laptop speakers, though I don't think they are all that bad.
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