No Sound on Laptop

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:16:47 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>Instead of a solution, this may be at least a temporary work-around.
>When I couldn't get sound working on my current system by trying to
>do everything right, I tried doing things wrong and that worked. In
>my case, plugging my speakers into the headset jack was the magic
>ticket to full sound. No idea why.

Hi,

you don't do it wrong.

It's not wrong to connect the headphone output of an el cheapo
electronic musical instrument or the headphone outputs of a computer to
the common Cinch AUX inputs of today's amplifiers. Nowadays it's
most of the times even possible to convert from balanced to unbalanced
without ever taking care of removing ground [1].

You are probably using el cheapo active computer speakers with an 3.5
mm (1⁄8 in) phone connector AUX inputs. That AUX inputs do use phone
connectors instead of Cinch speaks volumes ;).

Regards,
Ralf


[1]
The author died, the link is old, but while Firefox warns about a
potential security risk, it's worth to open his documents. However, in
this case, today there's seldom the need to worry about the issue
described by the document. It's in German, but the cable joints don't
need translation. http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Geraeteverbindungen.pdf