Alternate Ways to Line-In Recording

[jagabo]

It's probably 'cos it's not a good quality, or that it's only meant for line in. The ones that I bought are silver tinted 3.55mm male plugs. And the one that worked is called an Audio Cable, plus it's gold tinted. Maybe this "audio plug" only works for Earphone Out/Mic In connection?

I suspect the cable you bought has an attenuator built in.

[pandy]

My point was that there are two types of codecs on market - some use for MIC dedicated lines, some share same lines (even this codec offer low impedance output only on two lines).

Of course there are. I wasn't disputing that. But I would venture that 90 percent of people are using onboard audio with switched gain for mic/line inputs.

Yes, i agree and You have absolutely right - 90% people use embeded AC97 and AC HD codecs but i doubt that 90% of those codecs have plural I/O connectivity from MIC point of view.