Connecting most audio equipment

To play or record sound with your server, you can attach a microphone, amplifier, tape recorder, headphones, or a pair of speakers. (When you have headphones connected, you don’t hear beeps or other server sounds through the built-in speaker.)

For specific instructions on connecting a microphone, skip to the next section, “Connecting and Positioning a Microphone.” For specific instructions on connecting speakers, see “Connecting External Stereo Speakers” later in this chapter.

Follow these steps to connect most audio equipment to the server:

1Make sure that the audio equipment has a cable with a stereo miniplug (or extended miniplug) connector.

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Stereo miniplug

2Place the audio equipment near the server.

3Shut down the server and turn off the audio equipment.

4Attach the cable to the audio equipment and to the appropriate sound port on the server.

To hear or record incoming sound on the server using a cable with a stereo miniplug, connect the audio equipment to the sound input port (X).

To record the sound produced by the server or play that sound through external speakers using a cable with a stereo miniplug, connect the audio equipment to the sound output port (-).

5Turn on the server and the audio equipment.

You’re now ready to begin listening to and working with sound. For more information on setting sound options and working with sound, see “Choosing Sound Devices and Alert Sounds” in Chapter 1 of the Workgroup Server Administrator’s Guide and the “Sound” topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.

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Apple 8550 technical specifications Connecting most audio equipment

8550 specifications

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