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Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by Dan0208 on 09-22-2006 at 03:06 PM

I have been using my laptop on my new lcd tv lately just for watching movies and playing some games etc connected using s-video. this works great. I also want to play music from my playlists through better speakers than the laptop speakers.

I am therefore after a better solution for audio. currently i am using a little 1-to-2 plug that plugs into the headphone port and then has two female plugs for male AV (red and white) plugs to connect to. then other end then goes into the back of my stereo for AV-input. I can then put my stereo on AUX and play the laptop sound. this unfortunately is not that great quality.
Can anyone suggest another method or what i would have to buy to be able to play the sound from my laptop through better speakers (could possibly be a surround sound setup for my tv that im planning on getting). Im sure this is possible i am just not too sure how to go about it?

Thanks everyone

RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by user27089 on 09-23-2006 at 10:18 AM

The only way to do it is to buy some usb speakers or buy an external sound-card for your laptop. You can get a good sound-card now for less than £100 and they're worth having if you play a lot of media on your laptop and you want high-quality sound.

RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by Dan0208 on 09-24-2006 at 12:58 AM

hmm thanks for that. The external sound card looks like the way to go and what I am after. Is there any usb form of one of these. my laptop has only one PCMCIA slot and it is already taken up by my HD-TV tuner card..

Thanks for the reply

RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by Voldemort on 09-24-2006 at 01:01 AM

i THINK (not sure :P) this will do
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-External...Card/dp/B00006BALQ

RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by CookieRevised on 09-24-2006 at 01:12 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Voldemort
i THINK (not sure :P) this will do
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-External...Card/dp/B00006BALQ
the quality of such things is not better than the internal sound card though...

@Dan0208, what you already did (connecting the two cinch plugs into a jack/cinch plug) is the best thing you can do, provided you don't want to spend money for a very expensive soundcard update of your laptop.

Note that the quality of the sound is also determined by you volume controls in Windows and on your TV. This means, for example, don't put the TV sound on a low level and your PC sound volume very high as that will distort the sound. Vice versa will add a lot of static noise to the sound. Set everything to average...
RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by Dan0208 on 09-24-2006 at 01:37 AM

Thanks everyone for the advice. I think i will continue to do what I have been but just try levelling the sound a bit more.
oh and to cookie, when you say expensive soundcard update for my laptop what sort of price range are you talking?

RE: Connecting to stereo or home theatre? by CookieRevised on 09-24-2006 at 01:45 AM

depends on what you seek, but the price would automatically be higher compared to an equivalent soundcards for a normal PC (laptop stuff is always more expensive).