Speaker madness

TheOrangeRemix · 01-27-2006, 10:37 AM

Hi,

I am trying to hook up many speakers to my sound card. I am using a 4.1 speaker system and two bookshelf speakers (which require no power, surprisingly enough). When I plug all of them in, I noticed that the sound quality (bass + amplitude) is less than when I just have the 4.1 plugged in. Can someone explain why and/or how to fix it so that all of the speakers will sound off at the same bass + amplitude?

Thanks

**leroys1000** · 01-27-2006, 11:30 AM

The sound card utilizes a preamp output only.
There needs to be some sort of amplifier between the
sound card and book shelf speakers.
When you hook up the bookshelf speakers,it is loading down the
sound card and causing an impedence matching problem.

01-27-2006, 10:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
TheOrangeRemix Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 77 OS: Win XP	Speaker madness Hi, I am trying to hook up many speakers to my sound card. I am using a 4.1 speaker system and two bookshelf speakers (which require no power, surprisingly enough). When I plug all of them in, I noticed that the sound quality (bass + amplitude) is less than when I just have the 4.1 plugged in. Can someone explain why and/or how to fix it so that all of the speakers will sound off at the same bass + amplitude? Thanks __________________ Enermax 535W PSU, Asus K8N, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 2.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, 80 & 40 GB HD, 16x DVD-RW, 48x CD-RW

01-27-2006, 11:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
leroys1000 Tech Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 770 OS: Windows XP	The sound card utilizes a preamp output only. There needs to be some sort of amplifier between the sound card and book shelf speakers. When you hook up the bookshelf speakers,it is loading down the sound card and causing an impedence matching problem. __________________ There is a madness to my method.