[geeks] Audio Recording

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I don't know how people even listen to music on laptop speakers at all
> in the first place.  They're *awful*, and the result is painful to hear.
> headphones are an improvement, but my experience is laptops almost
> invariably have far too much electrical noise to tolerate on headphones.

Most of the D-series Dell laptops I used had intolerable noise on the
headphone jacks.  I assume it was the preamp picking up noise from the
CPU's PLL, since I could get crystal clear audio by backgrounding a
process that ate up all the CPU idle cycles.

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