Apple 6400 Using your computer’s sound features, About your computer’s sound ports and features

Using your computer’s sound features

Your Macintosh can play and record stereo sound from a variety of sources. By connecting audio equipment to the sound input and output ports on the computer, you can listen to or reproduce stereo sound. If it has an internal CD-ROM player, your computer can also play and record sound from audio compact discs (CDs). For information on using Macintosh system software to choose audio input and output options, record an alert sound, or play audio CDs, see the “Sound” topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.

About your computer’s sound ports and features

The sound input port is marked with an icon of a microphone (≈). The sound output port is marked with an icon of a speaker (-). Your computer’s built- in speaker functions as a subwoofer when external speakers (or a monitor with built-in speakers) are attached. For more information on the subwoofer, see the next section, “Using the Built-in Subwoofer.” For more information on the sound input and sound output ports, see the section “Connecting Audio Equipment.”

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