PC noise when playing music through stereo

Bill L · 10-25-2009, 09:16 AM

Hi -

I hooked my laptop up to my stereo and used 3.5mmjack/RCA jack. The music sounds good. but there is a little hiss or distortion from the PC at times. When I hooked up to the stereo with this same method using just my iPod, there was no problem. Any suggestions? I have a Dell Studio 15 laptop
and tried using both the standard sound card that came with it and I also purchased the external Creative X-Fi sound card. Both have a little noise to them and I think the upgrade external sound card is worse, but did enable me to line-in recording pretty well. I'm currently using Vista OS.

Dogg · 10-29-2009, 02:49 PM

Possibly just a low quality cable, or a faulty output jack.

10-25-2009, 09:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Bill L Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Windows Vsita	PC noise when playing music through stereo Hi - I hooked my laptop up to my stereo and used 3.5mmjack/RCA jack. The music sounds good. but there is a little hiss or distortion from the PC at times. When I hooked up to the stereo with this same method using just my iPod, there was no problem. Any suggestions? I have a Dell Studio 15 laptop and tried using both the standard sound card that came with it and I also purchased the external Creative X-Fi sound card. Both have a little noise to them and I think the upgrade external sound card is worse, but did enable me to line-in recording pretty well. I'm currently using Vista OS.

10-29-2009, 02:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dogg Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 1,965 OS: XP sp3	Re: PC noise when playing music through stereo Possibly just a low quality cable, or a faulty output jack. __________________ Google is your friend !