Guest Anonymous Posted June 25, 2003 Report Share Posted June 25, 2003 I briefly owned a MZ-R910 (it was stolen from my car) that had a "line out" function for the headphone jack. I got great sound when I set the output to "line out" instead of headphone and used a cable to connect to my car stereo. Does anyone know what "line out" is exactly? Not many Sony portable MDs have this function. Is it an umprovement over the regular headphone output for the use I describe above? Is "line out" the same as turning the volume up all the way? Finally, what MD players/recorders have this function? Thanks for your help. Jeffrey Brooklyn, NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted June 26, 2003 Report Share Posted June 26, 2003 Hi there I just got a player without the line out fuction for a gift. I planned all along to use it as a player for my car. I'm going to use a FM Channel modulator to put it on a FM channel. I've been searching this board and http://www.minidisct.com/ for some answers. I have a post on this forum at http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?t=2174. I got some answers at http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showthread....e+AND+headphone and you can also try this one http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showthread....e+AND+headphone http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showthread....e+AND+headphone thats all I've got for now Hope this helps Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 3, 2003 Report Share Posted July 3, 2003 Headphone amps are optimized for headphones and aren't necessarily the signal you want to send out to speakers or to record onto another medium. If the MD volume is turned up, the signal also gets hotter, which can overdrive the amp in your car or home stereo and give you nasty distortion and clipping of the signal. Line out skips the final headphone amplifier stage and puts out a flat, clean, powered signal from the pre-amp. Because of this, it decouples the volume control on your MD. This is what you want when you just want the pure music signal to send to another amplifier or to another recorder because the signal isn't "colored" by the final amp that sends the signal to headphones. On the MZ N10 the switch for Line Out is under Useful/Audio Out/ If you have the N10 switched to Line Out it will automatically switch over to headphone if you use the remote and headphone combo, and then back to Line Out when you plug in a cable to your outboard amp. If you plug in headphones without the remote, however, you get the full blast of line out which will overdrive the headphones. Not pleasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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