Poor sound quality out of new surround sound system

Tplayer2007 · #1 13th Jan 2009, 07:27

Hey everyone,

I am hoping someone can help me here. I just upgraded my home theater system from a 5 speaker + sub setup to a 2 speaker + sub setup. While I am extremely happy with the video and sound quality of the system while I am watching a DVD, the sound quality when I connect the system to my laptop is terrible. On my old system, I simply ran a audio cord from the headphone jack on my laptop to one of the audio inputs in the back of the DVD player. Good sound out of all the speakers and the sub did what it was supposed to do. Now when I do the same thing to my new system, the sound quality is terrible and the sub doesn't seem to work. Now my old system is around 6 years old and my new system is probably no more then a year old making it set up with HDMI, Component Video, S-Video, etc...a bunch of features that my old system did not have. I tried messing around with the sound settings on my laptop with no luck. Is there something simple I am missing here or do I need to be looking in to some kind of new sound card for my laptop? Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-Matt

**ilop12** · #2 13th Jan 2009, 12:38

so you are running 5 speakers plus a sub from a laptop? i jsut want to have more information.

Tplayer2007 · #3 13th Jan 2009, 15:29

Thanks for the reply. I was running a 5 speaker + sub system and now I am running a 2 speaker + sub set up. The DVD players on each system act like an amp. I have no desire to watch movies on my tv via my lap top. I just want to be able to listen to mp3's through better speakers then those of my laptop....something that worked out well on the old system and now does not work well at all on the new system.

**ilop12** · #4 13th Jan 2009, 15:31

can i have a link to the things you are using? sometihng online with a manual.

Tplayer2007 · #5 13th Jan 2009, 15:43

I don't know if I can find the exact model of the DVD player. It is a sony player and my lap top is a dell. I thought about running an HDMI cable from my laptop to the DVD player but my laptop doesn't have a port. I also thought about running an optical cable but again, my lap top doesn't have that port either. The only way to connect the DVD player and my laptop together (in its current state) is an S-Video cable and/or a regular audio cable via the head phone plug.