Recent content by shiftyape

this is probably a dumb question, but is there any way to make an amp out of spare parts? like a power supply or old speakers or something like that? either that or somehow routing more power to the audio port?

i have the sub plugged into the c/sub port via a RCA - 3.5mm converter. my stereo speakers are plugged into the normal port. in realtek audio manager, when i do the sound test thing, i can hear noise on the subwoofer, but it is super quiet. (btw its in 5.1 speaker mode, speaker fill and swap...

thanks for answering, i will take this under advisement.

what about the vevo song recordings? any way to tell the bitrate of those? i checked and most of my songs are mp3 and have a 128kb bitrate. is this good? ive heard that .wav is good quality is there any way to convert youtube to .wav?

i am getting the sennheiser hd 598 in about a week. While it gets here, i want to upgrade my music library from itunes compressed songs to high quality audio. question? where do i get that high quality music? (dont want to pay again) also, i am wondering if youtube has high quality sound. say...

well im not really a guy who needs serious bass actually it ruins some songs completely... im not a bass head. i like detail in my music rather than skull rattling bass.

i really have to thank you for this. it has been very informative, and as the highest quality sound ive ever had is from a 60 buck soundbar, it really helped me out. my motherboard definitely does not have an amp built in. again, thanks. i will review your list of headphones. by the way, how...

if i have headphones that normally use a 1/4 audio jack, and i put an adapter to 1/8th on it and plug it into my computer, will the sound be degraded or hurt in any way?

want some nice headphones, mainly for gaming, music, and video editing. dont need to have surround sound dont need to have microphone doesnt need to be noise isolating or noise cancelling needs to be very high quality sound, will last a long time without degrading needs to be under $200 true...

i have been looking into getting a razer tiamat. but from what ive heard, the sound quality is horrible. the tiamat is a ture 7.1 surround sound headset, so im guessing it has to sacrafice some audio quality for the surround. can anyone reccomend/decommend this product? or, if you cant, can you...