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Stereo sound - HELP!
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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I've got one of the original "platinum" G3s. And yes, I mean "original." Rev. A, baby! 
Anyway…. I've been burning audio CD-RWs, lately—I burn the songs onto CD-RW so I can equalize the sound levels before burning it to a regular CD-R. Unfortunately, my portable CD player and car speakers aren't accurate enough, and my trusty old Pioneer six-disc can't handle CD-RWs.
Fast-forward to last night: I bit the bullet and went down to Radio Shack. I got myself a $15 set of gold-tipped RCA wires and hooked my Mac's AV ports up to the stereo. The sound is incredible!—but only the left channel. The right channel just gives me this annoying hum. I know everything's working okay internally, cuz I've got a pair of computer speakers hooked up to the headphone jack and they're fine.
So…. Any suggestions?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Canada
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Double check your connections - that hum is usually due to a poor or grounded out connection.
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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I've already checked the connections several times (externally, anyway). But I'll bite. How do I check to see if it's grounded out?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Germany
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If you swap the phonos (L & R) do you move the good channel? The cable you have must be a 3.5mm jack to phono? Is it a stereo one (3 rings on the jack)? You should be able to use the same lead and connect it to a walkman... if you do that do both channels work?
It sounds a complicated way to make CD's too, you need something like Peak - then you can set the levels in real time before you burn the disk.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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This is a long shot but is there a mic hooked up and the source is turned on? There could be feed back coming from the mic. When I have certain programs on there will be a hum and it's because of the feedback form the mic.
Best of luck to you.
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"Tough Little Ship" - Riker
"LITTLE?" - Worf after having the Defiant salvaged by the Enterprise (First Contact)
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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I've heard of grounding issues with the RCA outs on the backs of certain Mac's. Why don't you just get a mini-plug spliter, plug your computer speakers into one of the splited signals and plug a mini-plug to stereo RCA cable into your stereo.
As for a permanet solution for your built in RCA jacks, i've heard that people have had to ground the connections themselves. Maybe try an audio repair store if you want to go that route.
Good Luck
Chucke
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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Richard — I checked the mic thing, disonnecting it altogether. No help. thanks, tho! Chucke — any idea how to go about doing that?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Old Country
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check your sound control panel, see if the bit rate is 22.3 or 44.6 or somthing like that
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