Re: Stereo board question (SoundMeister in this case)

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	I noticed that in the photograph of the old Econ Tech SoundMeister (the
original makers of the board) on Diaz's site:

http://www.apple2.org/images/InterfaceCards/Sound.Music/SoundmeisterECON.JPEG

	...you can see the types of cables used to connect to the sound
connetor / headphone backplate, etc.  Nice.  But looking at the manual
of the Alltech version of this board (they took over the rights to make
this board long ago (and quite making it something like 5-6 years ago
stll)), and looking at what I received when I got mine, Alltech switched
to a ribbon cable on both counts.  (Here's Alltech's board:)

http://www.apple2.org/images/InterfaceCards/Sound.Music/SoundMeister.JPEG
	
	(...not that you can see the ribbon cable -- I don't need to guess what
Alltech's favorite color is...)  I wonder just how much differnce this
makes as far as noise added to the output of the stereo sound.  ?  

	Perhaps I'll get an MDIdeas board still...



bp

Blake Patterson wrote:
> 
>         I just recived a SoundMeister board from the west coast and threw it
> down in my IIgs.  Works fine -- nice Ensoniq stereo.  The problem is
> that my internal GS speaker still outputs Ensoniq sound (as well as the
> old IIe style clicks).  I could disconnect the internal speaker (or plug
> a headphone plug with nothing hooked to it into the GS' built in mono
> headphone port, according to someone on Delphi chat) to silence it, but
> then I'd lose all IIe style sound as the SoundMeister does not output
> these sounds.
> 
>         I used to have a MDIdeas SuperSonic way back in '88 when I had my first
> GS and I do not recall this problem.  I think it might have output all
> sound to the stereo board's stereo headphone jack.  Any ideas what I can
> do here?  Is this normal?
> 
> bp
> --
> "Heisenberg may have slept here."

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