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I plugged in my speakers to my new laptop and now the sound sounds as if less bassy and high-passed. I might as well get deceited, maybe it just seems to me. So how can I test my speakers to find out whether evth sounds ok and I'm embellishing or speakers really produce high passed sound?

Directly into it? You may need an amp or external card to "drive" the speakers.

Those are regular high quality speakers, not monitors. So any testing tips?
And yea, a personal question - are you that very Fledz from Anjuna forum, with an image of a knight on avatar?

Don't connect direct to the speakers - assuming you have got a reasonable hifi,connect to the AUX socket,thus using the amp.

Cheers

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Originally posted by TranceLover007 Don't connect direct to the speakers - assuming you have got a reasonable hifi,connect to the AUX socket,thus using the amp. Cheers

Can you go more specific here? I dont seem to have an AUX socket..

computer output is low power line signal, not high power speaker output. you need to connect your speakers to an amplifier as everyone else said. then you can connect your computer into that amplifier. your computer has the same output level as a CD player, you cannot connect speakers (passive speakers that is) direclty into your cd player.



consider the tape-recorder as your PC...

I dont even wanna know how you manage to connect your speakers to your computer directly lol.

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Originally posted by Microlab And yea, a personal question - are you that very Fledz from Anjuna forum, with an image of a knight on avatar?

One and the same, whether that's a good or a bad thing. Probably both

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Originally posted by clay computer output is low power line signal, not high power speaker output. you need to connect your speakers to an amplifier as everyone else said. then you can connect your computer into that amplifier. your computer has the same output level as a CD player, you cannot connect speakers (passive speakers that is) direclty into your cd player. consider the tape-recorder as your PC... I dont even wanna know how you manage to connect your speakers to your computer directly lol.

That means I have active speakers cause I v never had any problems with sound..

you should know. does your speakers have a powerchord - if so theyre active and it would be better to call them monitors rather than speakers. couldnt u just tell us the brand? why all the secrets?

oh and another tip, it might be that the laptop output still is set to headphones rather than line output making it sound crap. dig in control panel sound settings.

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Originally posted by clay you should know. does your speakers have a powerchord - if so theyre active and it would be better to call them monitors rather than speakers. couldnt u just tell us the brand? why all the secrets? oh and another tip, it might be that the laptop output still is set to headphones rather than line output making it sound crap. dig in control panel sound settings.

No secrets at all, it's just a pair of hi-fi Microlab Solo speakers.

yeah they look sort of active (amp on only one of them right?), then the other connects to the first one using speaker cables? u seem to have found one of the only brands that are in between active monitors and passive hifi (except lofi pc-speakers with amp).



seems self explanatory imo, your problem is probably sound settings in windows control panel.

Those are active (the amp drives the primary and secondary speaker). Fucking weird way of doing it - the only other time I've seen that was on really cheap Roland semi PC speaker monitor things.

Palm is right - go check your settings in windows audio properties, make sure you don't have any weird EQ settings going on, and do the same in whatever audio player you're using (if you're using itunes or winamp this is a rookie mistake).

Otherwise, if you have long unbalanced cable runs they could be attenuating down the bass frequency so when you jack up the speaker you're getting more HF content.

Yep, RANN and Clay is right - I would check your windows sound setup as some (don't ask me why) computers come with additional sound enhancements options (like loudness equalization, .....) which can distort your signal quite a bit.

Cheers,

Darek

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