Dell - Audigy 2 ZS - Bose: Amplification?

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klingsoula

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I just bought a new Dell with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, I want to use it as a main computer linked to my TV in my bedroom.

I am thinking about buying a Bose speaker system (not because of the quality but because of the size) to put a 5.1 speaker system driven by my computer. My speakers will be about 30 feet (10m) from the computer. I will hook up a seperate VGA or DVI cable to my flat screen TV.

My problem lies in that I don't think that the sound card will run the bose system and I want to see what my option are for amplifying the sound from my computer. I want something small since my computer will be my main music and DVD outlet.

Do you have any solutions other than buying a (rather large) amplifier, running the sound card to the amplifier and then from the amp to the speakers?

Do in line computer amplifiers exist?

Look forward to your answers.

:)
 
All speakers need an amp to run. Computer 5.1 speakers have a weak amp in the sub that runs the other speakers.

What you're probably going to want to do is buy an actual home theater reciever with a built in amp or a preprocessor (reciever -amp) and then get seperate amps for the speakers. It will cost a little more, but if you want to drive a home theater type system with good sound quality and power, it's the only way to go. A good reciever will have optical ports for you to patch your computer sound into as well as video ports, so you can switch back and forth between watching DVDs to your computer video/sound with a push of a button
 
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