CD cable

[Queeg]

Anybody know where i can lay my hands on a long cable that goes from the CD to the sound card ?. I have a couple of standard ones but they stretch right accross the case so i wanted a longer one that i could hide away.

Is it a simple case of soldering? or would that screw up the sound ?


cheers in advance.

[Dunc]

why do you actually need one? Unless its a seriously old system its useless

[Queeg]

so i can play CDs through my computer ?

[Dunc]

The IDE cable will do the job just fine...

[slartiBardfarst]

yep..
from windows 98 onwards audio is taken digitally over ide to the soundcard via the motherboard.

[Queeg]

well there you go i didnt know that

cheers thats one less cable in the case

[daniel_owen_uk]

You sometimes have to set it to play digitally.

On the properties of the drive make sure "Enable digital CD audio from the CD-ROM device", thats on windows xp.

[latency]

But just so you know in future, any soldering will maim the sound quality...