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OK, that helps. I agree, Audio Out is likely a headphone jack, rather than a Line Out, because it didn't work well with the Tape In. My SONY portable Discman CD player has both outputs, which is why I have asked. If you don't have a Line Out, you'll have to play with the volume control on the CD player, and you want to start soft then get it up as high as you can without introducing distortion. Only then turn up the Mackie.

If you DO have a Line Out on the CD player, you should be using that instead.

192 bit rate should be fine. If you don't like the sound, that's likely not the problem.



You and Gary have brought up some interesting and probably obvious points. I could tell from listening and always strongly suspected that that headphone output was not as strong as the output jacks. I just ordered a cable with RCA plugs and a female 3.5mm stereo jack for my ext. laptop speakers. From what I see, most mp3 players only have a headphone jack so we're stuck with that for output. Sure makes you think about making sure that you make a good quality recording to maximize your output results. FWIW

Stan

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