![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t need the quality for your own headphones. Sadly, this is not something I can demonstrate via samples on a blog… but it is something I can easily demonstrate in person, and I’m more than happy to do that – so do ask me about it if you see me at an event.Īs an aside, I’ve seen people advocate the use of sound cards purely to preview, while using the headphone socket as the main sound output. Add a quality one – and the difference is night and day. Even a fairly cheap sound card will generally sound better than the best built-in headphone socket. Sound cards, on the other hand, are designed for only one purpose – to play sound. Add in the fact that much of our music comes from very old sources, and the sound quality is pretty iffy to start with… so it’s far worse once piped through a laptop’s dodgy sound output. Netbooks, which a lot of DJs use, are cheap, with cheap components, and they sound diabolical. ![]() Apple laptops have far better sound quality than most, and they sound dreadful if you pipe the music out over a decent set of speakers. The real reason is that laptops are not designed as high quality audio devices. HRT Music Streamer IIįrankly though, both the above reasons are just useful extras. The one on my last laptop did, during a gig, which would have been highly embarrassing had I not had one of these widgets handy. Well – there’s a host of answers to this.įirst – if you use the right DJing software, you can preview – in other words, you can listen to tracks on your headphones while playing – so it makes it easier to find the next track you want to play. Second question: I have a perfectly good headphone socket on my laptop – why on earth should I spend money on something like this? You plug the other into a mixing desk, some kind of speaker, headphones, you name it. Very simply: it’s a gadget, usually USB-powered. ![]() Welcome to another of the bees in my bonnet – the use of an external sound card while DJing from a laptop.įirst question: what is an external sound card? ![]()
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