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2008-12-12 04:44:16
Tripulaci0n
Member
+14|6422
Are there any computer speakers with their own sound card?

For example, I had an awesome Plantronics headset a while back that had some kind of sound card thing attached and it made my shit sound a lot better.

I want to play music from my laptop but the internal speakers suck and I'm not a huge fan of the RealTek software sound card or whatever the fuck it is.

So, any good computer speakers with a built in sound card OR just really good ones regardless that anyone know about? I don't need a monster set of speakers just something that sounds nice -- so like, being really loud isn't that important (and maybe a little bad because I live in an apartment), but I'd like to hear music that sounds a little better than my ipod headphones.

I'd say around $200 for something that will last me at least a year or two is my price range.

And I think I should mention that I only have 1 jack for sound output

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2008-12-12 04:46:28
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6463|Winland

Tripulaci0n wrote:

Are there any computer speakers with their own sound card?

For example, I had an awesome Plantronics headset a while back that had some kind of sound card thing attached and it made my shit sound a lot better.

I want to play music from my laptop but the internal speakers suck and I'm not a huge fan of the RealTek software sound card or whatever the fuck it is.

So, any good computer speakers with a built in sound card OR just really good ones regardless that anyone know about? I don't need a monster set of speakers just something that sounds nice -- so like, being really loud isn't that important (and maybe a little bad because I live in an apartment), but I'd like to hear music that sounds a little better than my ipod headphones.

I'd say around $200 for something that will last me at least a year or two is my price range.

And I think I should mention that I only have 1 jack for sound output
Get a Xonar for $50 and speakers for $150.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
2008-12-12 11:29:05
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6847|SE London

Digital speakers will typically have their own decoder. All the onboard sound hardware will need to do is a direct bitstream passthrough, putting no load on it and meaning the sound card quality is pretty much completely irrelevant to the quality of audio you get out of the speakers.
2008-12-12 12:59:26
.Sup
be nice
+2,646|6719|The Twilight Zone
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