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Connecting headphones directly to sound card VS through Cheap 2.1 speakers?

post #1 of 3
7/17/11 at 8:24pm
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The sound card is at the back of my computer, so it is troublesome connecting my headphones there. I have a low end 2.1 speaker system with a headphone jack at the front, it also lets me control the volume of my music easily. However I wonder if it affects the sound quality to pass audio through the speakers or is it the same as connecting directly to the sound card. Any thoughts?

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post #2 of 3
7/18/11 at 1:34am
Ever heard of something called an extension cable? wink.gif
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post #3 of 3
7/18/11 at 8:29am

I switched from a system like that (Titanium HD -> Logitech speaker volume controller -> Pro 900) to an amp with a volume control on it (Titanium HD -> E9 -> Pro 900) using a high quality EMI shielding cable, and the only differences I noticed (apart from those caused by the amp of course) was no more popping sounds (happened regularly before) and no more static noise (before, when I had the volume controller turned up high and no audio was playing there would be a low volume high tone noise, it wasn't audible during playback though). I bet the low quality of the logitech cable was the course of the static noise and popping, but I can't say for sure. If you have any of those problems I would recommend you get a high quality extension cable and see if that works better.

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