USB Audio for Computers

Series Summary

Computer audio is one of the most overlooked aspects of a computer purchase. With little information from the manufacturers, users have a hard time figuring out exactly what it is they are getting. Computer audio systems and audio technologies add another dimension to movies, music, and gaming. With a professional audio system, you can be sure that your audio experience is just as the movie director, game creator, TV producer, or musician originally intended.

In this free video series, our expert Tony Ramirez will teach you the basics, as well as select specifications of computer audio systems that every computer owner needs to know. For instance, what are the differences between digital and analog audio? What are powered and non-powered speakers? What speakers will give me the sounds that I need? Ramirez answers all of these questions and much more, and he'll even show you how to set up the software on your PC!

Video Transcript

" Hi, my name is Tony Ramirez from Tampa, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, this is audio for your PC. In this jungle of cables that we have here, is the back of the computer with the USB. So the first thing I'm going to talk about is the USB audio, USB audio is pretty cool because you can actually just pretty much plug in anything. Like here is my USB cable cord just a standard cable just like any other USB device would have rather it's a cell phone, scanner printer whatever it is. So with USB audio you can actually plug it in the same way whether it's the front or the back of your computer of course it's completely up to you. In this case I have mine in the back so I just go ahead and plug it in just like that. With USB audio it's pretty cool because if anything it can be considered as a type of portable audio because you can use this on your laptop or desktop and you can move it around. What it's great the USB audio will have all types of connections whether it's a digital connection or an analog connection maybe even some type of video connection. USB audios are great thing it's great to have like I said very easy to plug up most likely it will be powered by a USB port so you don't need any external power. So that is the bases of USB audio."