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Looking for a compact external sound card

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maverick786us

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I just bought a 43 inch 4K TV for my wife and a Lenovo Thinkpad with AMD Risen 5 Processor, which I will connect with my TV through HDMI to watch Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney Hotter. I will use Edifier 1280db + T5 subwoofer so that she can enjoy best cinematic sound effect.

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Though its smart tv which doesn't need a system to watch streaming channels...

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But in TV theres no center channel so dialogue will still be an issue, and on tv it's almost always on 5.1 given that the online content only supports 5.1. So my 2.1 speaker system when directly connected with TV will have issue. A PC sound is always better than TV. Lenovo Thinkpad is a business laptop, not some high end gaming or multimedia laptop. Unlike my gaming PC (my signatures) the onboard sound of Thinkpad isn't the best even when connected with those external speaker systems. So I am looking for some external sound card that can be connected with USB port of the laptop with output for my speaker systems to connected.
 

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MrGuvernment said:
Why not just buy a sound bar for the TV and be done with it? Your making this more complex than it needs to be....
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MrGuvernment said:
Why not just buy a sound bar for the TV and be done with it? Your making this more complex than it needs to be....
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I know that was something I initially planned and I did my research too. But the least expensive soundbar from Sonos, Sonos Ray costs $200, and it uses WiFi connectivity. In fact I have an old thread in which I tried to explore those options for my tv

https://hardforum.com/threads/i-gav...air-of-sonos-era-100.2040877/#post-1046098599

And I realized that all those wireless options aren't hazel free. So I decided to keep it simple with wired speakers
 
maverick786us said:
You mean to say if I connect good speakers to the headphone jack of Lenovo ThinkPad and this Sound Blaster DAC, the quality of the sound will be the same?
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not necessarily but you dont need anything more. if you connect the speakers to the tv and use the hdmi port that will work too.
ps: set the tv stereo, if youre only using 2.1
 
pendragon1 said:
not necessarily but you dont need anything more. if you connect the speakers to the tv and use the hdmi port that will work too.
ps: set the tv stereo, if youre only using 2.1
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Thank you. I was under the false impression that TV doesn't have any central channel and the sound output of TV isn't that great as a desktop computer.
 
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