framos917
New Head-Fier
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I have recently wanted to improve my computer listening experience. All my experience has been with listening to music thru my stereo and home theater equipment. I joined this forum about 2 years ago and received good advice on headphones and digital audio players. This found me creating more FLAC files on my laptop and now I want to improve my listening on my laptop. I have a Lenovo laptop on my desk in my home office. I have some very old Bose MediaMates that I bought to just have something better than what came with computer. I also bought a Behringer UCA-222. I wanted to connect to the Computer’s USB instead of the headphone jack. The UCA-222 also seemed to clean the music up a bit. I like the idea of a 2.1 set up. There is a lot of information in forums on active speakers. As I understand what I have read on subwoofers I will need to get a subwoofer with RCA pass through and there seems to be very few of them.
Please critique the equipment and the way I intend to connect them. Am on the right path or do I need more research?
I am not ready for a DAC as yet; I wanted to do this first.
I would appreciate any comments.
THANKS
Please critique the equipment and the way I intend to connect them. Am on the right path or do I need more research?
- Lenovo Laptop with Flac files.
- Behringer UCA-222, connect to USB of Lenovo.
- Dayton Audio Sub-80, connect to RCA output of UCA-222. There still seems to be a few of these available for around $100. The replacement for the Sub80 does not have RCA pas through only RCA IN.
- Active speakers, connect to RCA input of Sub80. Either the M-Audio AV40 ($209 on Amazon) or JBL LSR305 ($300 on Amazon)
I am not ready for a DAC as yet; I wanted to do this first.
I would appreciate any comments.
THANKS