Computer Audio Help

chrisharries · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

Hi everyone,

Looking for some help from some audio pro's, as my knowledge
of audio is, well, not amazing. I have a 5.1 surround, It's not
amazing but now I am thinking I want to get my sound spot on. My gfx,
cpu etc is all coming along nicely, and I know a lot about hardware
but hardly anything about audio.

What I want to do is get a nice expensive sound card and some good
speakers, was looking at the x-fire range, good and about £100 odd
something like Auzen X-Fi Prelude. 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, I am guessing for some
kind of speakers but I'd never seen it before. 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? I am not
looking to go nuts, just something to make my games and films feel
more "in the room" as it where.

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, or do I lose quality and such
like
with this?

Also, what kind of speaker systems should I look out for? I am
looking
for 5.1 of course, and something with mega long cables due to the way
my cables need to route round my room, and, of course, something that
is good, but again not nuts.

Thanks everyone and have a good day

Chris

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T Shadow · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 21

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Hi everyone,

Looking for some help from some audio pro's, as my knowledge
of audio is, well, not amazing. I have a 5.1 surround, It's not
amazing but now I am thinking I want to get my sound spot on. My gfx,
cpu etc is all coming along nicely, and I know a lot about hardware
but hardly anything about audio.

What I want to do is get a nice expensive sound card and some good
speakers, was looking at the x-fire range, good and about £100 odd
something like Auzen X-Fi Prelude. 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, I am guessing for some
kind of speakers but I'd never seen it before. 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? I am not
looking to go nuts, just something to make my games and films feel
more "in the room" as it where.

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, or do I lose quality and such
like
with this?

Also, what kind of speaker systems should I look out for? I am
looking
for 5.1 of course, and something with mega long cables due to the way
my cables need to route round my room, and, of course, something that
is good, but again not nuts.

Thanks everyone and have a good day

Chris

SPID is digital audio. Your speaker system will need a decoder to use it. If
your sound card has a decoder you can connect an analog speaker system to
it.

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and you can look up all the tech stuff. Just
put in any term you don't understand. It's very comprehensive.

You should look at Logitech and Klipsh speakers too. I was happy with the
wire length of my inexpensive Logitech system but my computer room is small.
YMMV

Good turntables don't put out much of a signal(IOW needs more amplification)
so yours probably aren't in that category. Hook one up direct. The
difference is the difference. Sometimes good enough is just that.