[OT] Analog amplifier to EEE PC 901

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ / v / || Technics Hi-Fi ---- stereo_audio || ModernFullFeaturecomputer Cassette recorder EEE 901 laptop || with Wifi Wifi ||

Since apparently the little laptop has mono microphone input, a USB to stereo adapter is needed to improve the characteristics of the EEE 901 on the analog side.

The EEE 901 could have limited storage (eMMC), but you could add more storage with USB.

Maybe with something like OBS, the audio could be streamed over to the other PC. Or maybe VLC could whip together a solution for a part of the picture.

Audacity can record on the 901, for later. While audacity can record to RAM normally, I think you can have it dump direct, a series of small files, to a designated storage.

If you like crude projects, you might even use arecord/aplay (alsa-utils) from the ALSA era.

One benefit of using a laptop in this way, is no ground reference and no ground loops (hum). The shield voltage is defined by the Technics. If I were to send the Technics direct to my home computer, I would hear hum in the recording.

Paul

That spindle is the capstan. That’s the motorized drive that keeps the tape moving at a constant speed past the heads.

When I did head cleaning, I would try putting some cleaner on the rubber pinchwheel. That always seemed to be incredibly dirty, or possibly it was the rubber of the wheel itself dissolving in the isopropanol, in which case I shouldn’t have been cleaning it ...

That looks pretty helpful. It is all some way off at the moment.

Thank you, Alan

I bought one of those. The hiss and hum made it useless.