Sound / Speakers

[goofaholix]

I have a new but bottom of the line Laptop PC. All is fine except I want to watch DVD movies, listen to CD's etc and I'm finding the sound is pretty tinny, i guess what you'd expect from a bottom of the line laptop.

It may be a dumb question but I wondered if buying a set of Desktop PC speakers and plugging them into the headset connection would solve the problem, is that possible? or is the limitation with the soundcard or software?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[pudda]

Chances are you will need self-powered speakers, as the sound card signal from your laptop is probably not amplified.

The test continues...

 

[paparazi]

goofaholix
Powered speakers (those with their own pwer supply) should work fine.
Sub and sats will give you the nice bass, if thats what you are looking for, only down side about all this, is you are not making your "portable" laptop very portable with all these extra's .
Martin

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[ch424]

Creative do TravelSound speakers, which are quite good, and run on batteries/mains, but have no sub.

 

[kiddpete]

You should probably attempt to get the sound specs for the laptop. That should tell you whether speakers will help. If the specs are poor, Creative has an external sound 'card' which plugs into the USB port. It does have good specs. Doesn't help with portability though.