[...] Ali Kerbassi made a video tutorial to help people avoid having loud music blast out of their laptops when the headphone cords get yanked out in libraries, but it has another great application: preventing your eardrums from being damaged when you switch to headphones after your laptop has been cranked through a stereo system or a PA, if you’re a laptop DJ — but only if you’re using a USB audio output to connect to the PA, rather than the laptop’s headphone jack. (Then again, you were probably doing that already for reasons of sound quality). [...]
[...] Ali Kerbassi made a video tutorial to help people avoid having loud music blast out of their laptops when the headphone cords get yanked out in libraries, but it has another great application: preventing your eardrums from being damaged when you switch to headphones after your laptop has been cranked through a stereo system or a PA, if you’re a laptop DJ — but only if you’re using a USB audio output to connect to the PA, rather than the laptop’s headphone jack. (Then again, you were probably doing that already for reasons of sound quality). [...]