11-30-2010, 06:12 PM
I have an SSTRAN connected to an old stereo receiver with multiple inputs. I use one of the tape inputs to connect a cheap CD player. To the other tape input I ran a wire with a phone plug that I can connect to a computer or MP3 player. I connected the receiver's headphone jack to the SSTRAN. It works very well, and I often run it 24 hours a day. I listen to Pandora from the computer, FM radio stations, and sometimes CDs that I want to hear on my old radios.
The SSTRAN is an exceptionally well-designed kit with about the best instructions I've run across for a kit.
The one problem I had is that my receiver doesn't have a stereo/mono switch, so if I listened to stereo sources I would only get one channel through the SSTRAN. Often that isn't noticeable, but with some early stereo recordings I hear on Pandora, the voices and instruments are widely separated. You can hear the difference if you get only one channel. I built a simple adapter that shorts the two stereo channels together, so that isn't a problem any more.
The SSTRAN is an exceptionally well-designed kit with about the best instructions I've run across for a kit.
The one problem I had is that my receiver doesn't have a stereo/mono switch, so if I listened to stereo sources I would only get one channel through the SSTRAN. Often that isn't noticeable, but with some early stereo recordings I hear on Pandora, the voices and instruments are widely separated. You can hear the difference if you get only one channel. I built a simple adapter that shorts the two stereo channels together, so that isn't a problem any more.
John Honeycutt
