Re: [LAU] question related output level and sound card

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 01:11:44 EET

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:55:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 
> But the average sound card, running on the system 5 volt bus is all tapped
> out at +4, clipping anything that goes above that.

Indeed. +4 dBu is nearly 3.5 V pp, you can't expect much more
from a single 5 V power supply.

A decent 'pro' line out will be able to drive something like
+20 dBV (10 V RMS) into 200 ohms. That's 1/2 W.

Ciao,

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