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- From: ahm@latech.edu (Albert H. Mak)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: Mediavision FUSION CD problems
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:10:48 GMT
- Organization: Louisiana Tech University
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- Hi,
-
- I have also noticed noise problem when I play CD through my PAS-16.
- I have since then cured the problem. See what you think.
-
- I believe that the noise is injected into the Sound board via the cable.
- The cable that connects the CD-ROM to the sound board runs across many
- high frequency switched circuits and cables. Generally there is a
- great deal of EM-I inside the PC. Mediavision has put some measures
- to prevent noise injection. You might notice that at the soundboard
- end of the cable there is a ferrite which is supposed to reject HF
- components in the signal. I don't think it is sufficient.
-
- What I did was to twist the two strands of the cable (connecting the CD-ROM
- and the sound card) together. This has the effect of converting the noise
- which previously was injected to only one strand of the cable, into
- common mode noise. The buffers in the sound board have highe common mode
- rejection ratio, which should supress most of it.
-
- Try it and see. It worked for me. :-)
-
- Good luck.
-
- Albert (ahm@engr.latech.edu)
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