Re: Computer Sound

On Oct 29, 5:44 am, chrisharr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Looking for some help from some internet audio geeks, as my knowledge

I understand. Only an Internet audio geek would attempt to form a
legitimate answer when someone essentially says: "I only have a little
money to spend and I don't know anything about the hardware I'm buying
but can someone please tell me all that I need to know."

All surround speaker sets that cost £100 or less are essentially crap.
They're different flavors of crap so it's up to you to decide what
kind of crap you're willing to listen to. Go to the kind of store that
sells crap computer equipment and tell them that you want to listen to
some speaker systems that cost around £100. That's where you start.

I just have no idea what all these
odd things are like SPID or on my old sound card I had this square
block which seamed to have a red LED in it,

The only SPID I know about that has anything to do with computers is
the Service Provider IDentification which has something to do with a
DSL Internet connection, but nothing to do with audio other than that
you may need to be connected to the Internet to download audio files.
The square block with a red LED in it is probably a TOSLink (fiber
optic) digital output.

Basically I am just
wondering is normal jack connectors like I have always used the way to
go, or to get good sound quality is there something else?

That's what you should stick with. You don't know enough to start
messing with fiber optic connections and the various surround encoding
and decoding schemes that you're likely to encounter in hooking them
up. And for £100 you surely won't find speakers that use anything but
"standard" analog mini plugs and jacks.

I am not
looking to go nuts, just something to make my games and films feel
more "in the room" as it where.

You need a sound card like the M-Audio Revolution. It has all the
connectivity that you need for your game playing and even though this
card is targeted to consumer applications like games and home theater
use, it's backed by a company that makes decent semi-pro level audio
gear.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Revolution51-main.html

Also I am a DJ and like to record my mixes through my computer, at the
minute I just have a cable with 2 phono's on output of the mixer to
single jack to line in, is this ok

It's just fine. Just make sure that you aren't recording at too high
or too low a level. Learn how to view and read meters and how to make
record level adjustments. That's a software thing for most systems
like yours.

Also, what kind of speaker systems should I look out for?

Look out for ones sold out of the back of a white van stopped at a
traffic light. Don't buy those.


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