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| mezzir |
So a month or two back, i was at a local coffee shop working on some music and some guy walking by my table accidentally snagged something on my headphone cord. not only did it rip the headphones off my ears, but it also ed up the 1/8" audio out jack on my laptop.
worked ok for a while, but it was deteriorating so i took it into a local computer repair shop. turns out the jack itself was broken and they couldn't just solder it back.
so after paying money for labor and waiting two weeks, i got my computer back with just a hole where the audio jack should be. so wtf
anyone know if there's any way to get audio out of a usb or anything?
or just anything short of a new sound card?
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| Sumit_A |
Yeah, Assuming that you are talking bout a inbuilt soundacrd in laptop.
If you have even a single PCMCIA slot empty, you could purchase a PCMCIA sound card, lots of options...depends on what yr application is. For laptops I would suggest the "Creative Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA" 7.1 output and very very clean performance, but again depends what your application is. You also get external USB soundcards, this may be the best option as you seem to be using your laptop for production. Go to www.cnet.com and the vendor sites and compare.
Cheers :p |
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| jdat |
Get a pcmcia card but these go in the 100+ $ range I think for the most part.
or if you're going to get a usb soundcard for your laptop which I'm assuming you like listening to music on the go a lot here is your ultimate solution:
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/pro...producthome.asp
Small, great quality ( head-fiers rave about them ), and very cheap!
There are ways to install a new jack inside your laptop but it could require some serious rigging. |
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| Wildfir3 |
| u could always try and find one of them USB headphones too... they have some kind of soundcard in the headpiece itself or something. Dunno how they're called and i'm guessing they'll be about as expensive as a PCMCIA card thingy |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
Get a pcmcia card but these go in the 100+ $ range I think for the most part.
or if you're going to get a usb soundcard for your laptop which I'm assuming you like listening to music on the go a lot here is your ultimate solution:
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/pro...producthome.asp
Small, great quality ( head-fiers rave about them ), and very cheap!
There are ways to install a new jack inside your laptop but it could require some serious rigging. |
sweet!
thats exactly what i was looking for more or less, just ordered one :D |
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| Omega_Blue |
i've got two USB soundcards for my laptop
an m-audio audiophile USB... which has RCA in/out, MIDI in/out, and something else that i don't feel like getting up to check. optical in/out or something
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a SBLive! USB.. which i bought mainly cause it has front and rear outputs... and a sub/center channel out
audiophile cost me like 100 bucks, and the SBLive was 50 |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by mezzir
so after paying money for labor and waiting two weeks, i got my computer back with just a hole where the audio jack should be. so wtf
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I'd firstly ask them exactly what they took your money away for when they didn't do what you asked for. |
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