First post, by dosgamer
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Anyone ever done this? I had to on this card. It wouldn't output any sound. On closer inspection, I found that the SMD resistors on the Zobel network on the LM386 outputs had their tops blown off, and the SMD capacitors looked overheated. 😐 I don't even. I desoldered the the two LM386 amplifiers and they were dead as well. Luckily, the ES1688 chip itself was fine. I jumpered the AOUT_L and AOUT_R pins directly to the output jack via two 10uF coupling capacitors as per the datasheet. Now it's a proper line out. It should improve the sound quality as the cheap amplifiers used on sound cards are usually crappy and noisy.
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