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Does the CT3900 AWE32 have onboard amplification?

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First post, by DaveJustDave

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I read some models have a TDA1517, but not sure about this one.

I wired a little internal speaker and connected to speaker out, but even when maxed out it's way too quiet. IIRC some older soundblasters had jumpers to enable/disable onboard amplification, but the 3900 doesn't, does it?

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Reply 1 of 2, by darry

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AFAIK, the ones with jumpers to enable/disable amplification had a single combined line/speaker out . The speaker out should be amplified and thus louder than the line-out, AFAIK .

See https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-mult … WE32-ID-10.html

Reply 2 of 2, by DaveJustDave

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darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 02:49:

AFAIK, the ones with jumpers to enable/disable amplification had a single combined line/speaker out . The speaker out should be amplified and thus louder than the line-out, AFAIK .

See https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-mult … WE32-ID-10.html

Yeah looks like I'll have to find an alternative. i *really* want an internal speaker, going to see if I can find a tiny amp that can be driven off a molex connectgor

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