Hello all, I figured this question might scramble a few heads and make you think for a while, I know I have. I currently owned the latest of the soundblaster audigy cards, as I am ready to change my current speakers I have managed to get a set of bose 5.1 as a gift. for ref. only these are the ones, Acoustimass 6 series III I've emailed creative labs and bose as to find out how to connect these to my audigy without the use of an external receiver, in other words I want to eliminate any third party pass-through devices. Though it seems impossible, nothing is. I know there has to be a way, has anyone ever thought about this, it sure doesn't hurt to ask among all these experts.
Thank to all audiophiles.
OnimushaLord
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Cesar,
PASSIVE speakers need a power supply to drive them aka need an amp/receiver to supply the power. The Audigy soundcards r only handling the processing part and act sorta like a pre-amp. You will definately need to hook the passive speakers up to an amp to make them produce sound Connecting direct to your Audigy card(underpower) will damage the speakers faster than overpowering them with a high-wattage amp.
Just curious, why Bose of all others? U do realize that many of their products are more advertisement than hi-fi I hope. Anyway, if u want direct to soundcard connection, u have to use active speakers...for PC...maybe the Videologic Sirroco Crossfires/ Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1/ Creative Gigaworks etc...
Thanks for your reply, Well reason being is that they were given to me free ;-) and second reason, I haven't found any good decent speakers that will carry the lows (Bass) very far, or in other words so clean like this subwoofer. I currently tried logitechs z....5.1, I returned them so I still kept my original FPS 200 4.1 digital cambridge works, it happens that the bass sounds so dry, so boomy and as if the subwoofer was hitting, even I have tried countless settings in the computer and int he subwoofer itself. I want a clean acoustic bass that almost sound as if it continues until gradually fades. I hope you kind of understand what I am looking for. Any suggestions.
Yes, you definitely need a 5ch power amp to drive those Boses. Although a much better choice would be to return those and buy active Creative GigaWorks S750 speakers. They're nowhere near as bad as Bose and you wouldn't need to buy the amps.
