| ▲ | Y_Y 5 hours ago | |
I don't know what you mean here, I can plug a speaker into my mic slot and use that to record, just as plugging a mic into the speaker slot gives a (crappy) speaker. | ||
| ▲ | cdaringe 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> purposely built input stage You moved your device to the purposely built input stage. Not an expert, but your remark doesn’t compute with the parent comment | ||
| ▲ | 15155 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
A DAC and amplifier circuit is electrically incapable of processing input (on its own.) Physically unplugging and moving a speaker to a mic input works, sure, but very few devices can do this switching electronically. | ||
| ▲ | Workaccount2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Because on your computer the engineers purposely put a switch that can direct the signal to either the input hardware or the output hardware. It's not a mic slot, it's a general analog I/O port with a 3.5mm form factor. | ||