Poor sound quality

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I have a laptop in which its built in sound card quality is getting rather distorted nowadays. I have bought an affordable Comodow USB sound adapter in an effort to solve this problem. However, the problem became more serious. Now the sound quality via the Comodow USB sound card is even worst than the built in sound card(Soundmax). I knew I have wasted my money on this pathetic USB sound card, which costed me a mere 20 bucks. Now, I dare not put my gamble on the "Creative USB Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External", which will cost about 4 times more. I have also aborted the idea of changing the entire motherboard together with the sound card as it will cost 20 times more. Now, can anyone help me? What should I do to get value for my new high end 2.1 channel speakers?

By the way, the sound quality via my mp3 player to speaker works great, so the problem can be isolated to sound card, not speakers.
 
Bleh! However someone adviced me to buy a USB sound card in this forum instead.
So how are you going about solving the internal sound card issue?
 
You can't possibly be using a bad sound card (be it built in or external) forever right and not doing anything about it? There must be a solution for this.
Anyone else can offer any solutions?
 
the creative IS a good card, i've only heard good things about it.
altough, i dont excpect it to be as good as a PCI card in a normal pc.

but.. what does the sound actually sound like?
does it sound like youre in a hollow tree? or does it echo or what?
usually there is a Equolizer in the sorftware of a soundcard, maybe check that out, because you can alter the volume of different frequenty ranges with it, so you can alter the sound quite a lot with something like that.
( at least, My creative card has a software equolizer with it :) )
 
well, sound blaster, a creative labs product, would be the one i suggest. ive got an internal audigy 4 in my desktop, and it came with a remote even... the quality was probably 5 fold over that of my integrated sound, just because the sound card could hit more sounds at once. try playing a video game with music in the background and having the noise stay clear - my audigy 4 does it fine. you don't notice a huge difference until you switch back to integrated to compare - needless to say i could seriously notice the difference when i switched back.
 
i owned the Sound Blaster Live! external, and i can't say anything bad about it. i found it for $40 at staples. it helped me through a time when my internal went bad, and i needed something to make due until i got another internal. i heard externals were better because they don't pick up the internal pc "noise". any truth in that?
 
well... indeed it could be that external soundcards dont pick up so much EMC from the rest of the pc because theire outside the case.. altough, with modern print layout desifgs,.. (like the audigy2 and 4 etc) i really doubt it matters much. and i bet the X-fi series grinds any external anyway.
 
i think i saw a x-fi sound card for a laptop. it's a card that goes in the side, not usb. maybe you can try that.
 
you mean a PCM-CIA soundcard? i havnt seen one of those yet, but then, i havnt looked for one yet :P
if you look at such a card tough.. make sure it fits in the laptop, since some of those cards use 2 slot,s instead of 1, and cant be fitted in all laptops because of that ;)
 
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