what happened to my computers speaker volume?

Question

So I've had my computer running through a home stereo so that i can have the best sound for music and movies. Recently my home stereo (which is quite old) has been going out on me. As a solution i went to radioshack and bought wires that will go directly from the computer to the speakers (bypassing the cd player). Now with the volume MAXED OUT i can bearly even hear a thing. I know it's hooked up right because i hear the song it's just very very low. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you in advance for any advice! :)

Answer 1

dude your stereo is the one that supplied power to the speakers if you take the power away the volume will be almost nothing, you need a set of speakers that has its own source of poiwer otherwise you ll never get even 5 dBs

Answer 2

I really don't think you have enough juice to power the speakers directly from your puter. I've got my old stereo conected to my puter and it works great. You need to connect the computer to the auxilary jacks of the stereo, then you should have plenty of power to your speakers.

Answer 3

you popped your audio device meaning at one element you became them as much as loud and stored it there and the speaker drum popped so the sound is the flapping of the popped edges, the simplest answer is to purchase new audio device, if your audio device have been over $500 you ought to to get them fixed.

Answer 4

You need amplified speakers for your computer. Check them out at newegg.com or tigerdirct.com.

http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Category.asp?Category=37

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=98

Answer 5

you need some sort of amplification as MrZero has said