does anyone have any suggestions (other than keeping your phone away from speakers) on how to prevent that? thats the biggest problem with listening to music via iphone right there.<br><br>~Hoeken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 25, 2008 5:50 PM, Jascha Narveson <<a href="mailto:jnarveson@wesleyan.edu">jnarveson@wesleyan.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Ah, that was it - i just called myself and heard the burst of noise.<br><br>thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>j<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Kevin Balktick wrote:<br>
<br>> Is it near something that would create radio/magnetic interference,<br>> such as your cell phone?<br>><br>><br>><br>> Kevin.<br>><br>> On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Jascha Narveson wrote:<br>><br>
>><br>>> Hi, Brent -<br>>><br>>> Hm, this is interesting. I've purchased a $20 pair of computer<br>>> speakers and have cut one off. Right now I'm playing a CD walkman<br>>> through the other one, and I do notice occasionally the speaker<br>
>> will cough up little bursts of noise - not super frequent, but<br>>> once or twice every few minutes or so. Is this the kind of<br>>> behavior which I can expect from having chopped the other speaker<br>
>> off?<br>>><br>>> thanks,<br>>><br>>> jascha<br>>><br>>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Brent Buescher wrote:<br>>><br>>>> You won't get cheaper than half a normal computer speaker set; in<br>
>>> fact<br>>>> you should be able to find computer speaker sets with one dead<br>>>> speaker<br>>>> for free.<br>>>><br>>>> The only problem with that approach is that computer speaker<br>
>>> amplifiers (and similar things for mp3 players and such) have fairly<br>>>> low-impedance inputs. This means they put a load on your circuit<br>>>> when<br>>>> you hook them up to it, which can make it behave differently than<br>
>>> when<br>>>> they're not hooked up. May or may not matter for your application.<br>>>><br>>>> The little Radio Shack speaker has a high-impedance input, or at<br>>>> least<br>
>>> older models did. I have one in my toolbox for tracing out audio<br>>>> signals and so on. It is a little expensive for what you get and<br>>>> adding a wall wart doesn't make it any cheaper.<br>
>>><br>>>> If you want something bigger with high-impedance inputs, watch<br>>>> discount stores like Wal-Mart and Target for when they put their<br>>>> cheap<br>>>> little guitar amps on sale.<br>
>>><br>>>> Another approach: if you trace out radios you can usually find the<br>>>> input to the audio amplifier and add an auxiliary input. Wal-<br>>>> Mart has<br>>>> $5 clock radios that would be easy to convert into little mono<br>
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