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Re: Apple puts limits on iPod levels



BLuRry wrote:
Unless you're talking about apple installing volume knobs on the side
of an apple //e, you've posted to the wrong forum.

Although that doesn't sound like a bad idea -- anyone ever mod their
//e case with a headphone jack and volume knob?  Any recommendations
for doing so?

It's not as simple as you'd like, since the "neutral" side of the
speaker is at +5v and the "signal" side is being pulled down by
a Darlington transistor.

So the big problem is that the speaker is not ground-referenced.

I modified my machines with a small 1:1 audio transformer in place
of the speaker and a 200 Ohm pot across the secondary to control
the volume.  I used a mini-phone socket across the speaker for a
headphone jack.

-michael

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