Cadriel
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Hi all,
I've recently purchased myself a pair of JBL LSR305's. Love them. I simply run them through a 3.5mm jack split to two TRS connectors. If I run the speakers through my Macbook Pro - the sound is awesome.
However - I also plug these into my gaming PC on occasion - and in this case, I get a terrible background hiss / noise. The noise changes as the PC encounters different workloads. Simply moving the mouse can cause slight differences in the hiss. As soon as I start a game, the noise is louder and more pronounced - and as the action changes on screen, so does the noise. At the moment I'm mostly blaming my incredibly power hungry graphics card (GTX 580) and the motherboards onboard sound card.
Initially I thought grabbing a AudioEngine D1 or something similar would resolve my issues - but I'm wondering if a decent internal sound card - something like the SoundBlaster Zx would also fix my issues? I assume these are suitably shielded to avoid the issue?
I want to keep costs low if at all possible - and the Zx looked like a good option.
Any thoughts?
Cheers!
I've recently purchased myself a pair of JBL LSR305's. Love them. I simply run them through a 3.5mm jack split to two TRS connectors. If I run the speakers through my Macbook Pro - the sound is awesome.
However - I also plug these into my gaming PC on occasion - and in this case, I get a terrible background hiss / noise. The noise changes as the PC encounters different workloads. Simply moving the mouse can cause slight differences in the hiss. As soon as I start a game, the noise is louder and more pronounced - and as the action changes on screen, so does the noise. At the moment I'm mostly blaming my incredibly power hungry graphics card (GTX 580) and the motherboards onboard sound card.
Initially I thought grabbing a AudioEngine D1 or something similar would resolve my issues - but I'm wondering if a decent internal sound card - something like the SoundBlaster Zx would also fix my issues? I assume these are suitably shielded to avoid the issue?
I want to keep costs low if at all possible - and the Zx looked like a good option.
Any thoughts?
Cheers!