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