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Understanding PC sound connections

Understanding PC sound connections

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Understanding PC sound connections

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- [Instructor] Some computers have simple audio connections. For example, a laptop may have two audio jacks, microphone and headphone, though some may only have one, a headphone jack. A desktop computer can have two sound jacks on the front and five or more on the back. The good news is that the sound jacks are color-coded. The bad news is that the color-coding isn't standardized. Let me help you unravel the PC sound connection mystery. The two most common audio connections are the microphone and speakers. The microphone jack is color-coded pink. The speaker or headphone jack is color-coded lime green. These two colors are quite consistent in all of computerdom. A third jack is common on some computer cases, line-in. This jack could be color-coded gray, though the color is inconsistent. The line-in jack is for unamplified sound sources. For example, if you were to digitize music from a cassette recorder, you'd connect that…

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