The minister's wife has been showing videos off the net with a laptop PC. She has been using the laptop speaker as relayed by a wireless mike, which is rather vile & picks up the blower on the video projector. The mike started using up batteries rapidly, so it is time to move on. New wireless mikes are $400 up unless you buy one with patented single use batteries stupidly expensive. I'm not interested. I repaired a $30 PV8 mixer with a stereo 1/8" phone plug cable to get away from wireless mikes, only to find her computer has no earphone jack. It has about 6 USB ports. The mixer works great on the condensor cardioid lavalier mike I bought the minister. The lavalier mike howls out in front of the speakers where the projector has to be, and I can control it with a graphic equalizer, but don't want to spend my time up front riding the slider pots.
So I look up DAC, and find the $349 cambridge audio dacmagic and a $299 something else, both with USB input and a line cord.
I look up DAC at newark and I get $5-12 IC's.
Isn't there some sort of gadget costing under $50 that will plug in the usb, be powered by the usb, and drive a stereo earphone jack?
BTW, what do you do to Windows 10 to tell it to put audio out the USB? She has no clue, and I use Lubuntu 14 which will run on a US assembled computer, hideously obsolete according to Microsoft. The great advantage, nobody writes viruses for lubuntu 14. Also It doesn't want to update in the middle of the service like windows 10 requested to do last week.
So I look up DAC, and find the $349 cambridge audio dacmagic and a $299 something else, both with USB input and a line cord.
I look up DAC at newark and I get $5-12 IC's.
Isn't there some sort of gadget costing under $50 that will plug in the usb, be powered by the usb, and drive a stereo earphone jack?
BTW, what do you do to Windows 10 to tell it to put audio out the USB? She has no clue, and I use Lubuntu 14 which will run on a US assembled computer, hideously obsolete according to Microsoft. The great advantage, nobody writes viruses for lubuntu 14. Also It doesn't want to update in the middle of the service like windows 10 requested to do last week.
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