Originally Posted by infinitesymphony
Balanced audio is a good thing, and it's mostly used for recording because it still hasn't caught on in consumer audio. No onboard sound solutions support balanced audio, and any cards that do support balanced audio advertise that feature. Onboard audio (and an internal sound card in general) usually has 1/8" unbalanced outputs, so you'll need to use the adapter to split the signal into separate left and right cables to run to each speaker.
oh nice. i was already think that my motherboard was outdated already.
So its safe to go with the active monitors plus i'm trying to avoid the big subwoofers with those computer speakers. So as long as the active monitors just have the signatures bass in the track then i'm cool. I'm not really for something overwhelming on the bass side of things.