[X-Newbies] Re: iMac - audio input

[Michele Forrester]

On 4/28/05 B.ru c-e *K1u-tch-k0 wrote:
>On 4/28/05 5:32 PM, "Michele Forrester" <macuzr at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>  > I feel I am right back where I was several months ago figuring I
>>  couldn't do this. :o( The stereo is all one piece - a stack system
>>  with the record player on top. It has radio, tape and record player
>>  as well as an audio in for an extra item I believe. It DOES have
>>  headphone out and I believe audio in as I had it hooked to the TV for
>>  better sound for a while. I just checked and it doesn't even HAVE
>>  audio out. :o( The set my mom just sold would have and my older
>>  stereo system had it...I just believed this one did too. It does have
>>  the headphone but I have heard that isn't the best way/shouldn't be
>>  used.
>>
>>  SHOOT!
>>
>  > Michele
>  >
>You *Can* use the headphone out jack, but you would have to keep the volume
>down. This is a limitation of your audio system, not unusual in these days.
>If you would to spend a few hundred dollars on a new turntable and preamp

That is good news...I will have to try that and cross my fingers! 
Some of the casettes I taped off of 8-tracks with the track click and 
all so I am not too concerned with an exceptional quality...just 
listenable will be fine!

Michele