Audio out on PC

[disassembler]

Any one know why my PC audio sounds great through a stereo or headphones but when I run it into an amp it has a HUGE amount of noise in the signal?????????????????????????

[elbows]

I dunno but if I put headphones on and turn volume up really high, then whenever something moves on screen I can hear a lot of electrical noise.

At a guess the signal from your computer is already coming out at quite a high level of power, and the amp then amplifying this further is causing problems?

Hmm, maybe better to wait for someone who knows something about audio to answer that one!

[murph]

the input on your stereo expects a line-level signal, and the headphone output is a powered signal. If you don't have a line-out on your computer's sound card, try just turning the volume down to about 10% or until you stop getting a lot of noise. If you really need good sound output, get a PCMCIA card, laptop sound cards aren't the best.

[tim]

when you are on a laptop its normal. You should get an usb soundcard to fix that. But normallly when on desktop, you should get pretty clean sound. It does nt make any sence that its only coming thru your speakers and not thru the headphones. So i guess the problem is your electricity fields in your room/house/club. Your speakers, amplifier, computer and monitors are the problem, i guess.

[mjz55]

I am gonna guess it is your music system, unless there is a problem with your soundcard. I use both laptop and tower for clubs and mobile dj work without any problems. I use the built in sound card on my laptop and my built in card on my tower along with my second sound card in the tower by soundblaster. Both puters are massively amped, especially in the clubs.