Noise problem on pc conecting to speakers

Daryn

Hi and wonder if someone can help me solve a problem. Whenever I connect my pc to my sound system to play my music it makes lots of noise ,think its the fan etc that I can here, I connect it via the headphone out socket on the pc.
Any help would be most appreciated thanks.

grumpycrab

As an experiment turn your monitor OFF. Any difference? (Its electromagnetic interference).

fwor

Daryn wrote: »

I connect it via the headphone out socket on the pc

Have you checked that the volume level is high enough? If too low the external amp will exaggerate any noise on the output.

Otherwise, if it had digital out as well, an external DAC should solve the problem completely, but at a cost. If your sound system has an AV decoder, it should already have one though, with a corresponding S/PDIF digital input.

Daryn

fwor wrote: »

Otherwise, if it had digital out as well, an external DAC should solve the problem completely, but at a cost. If your sound system has an AV decoder, it should already have one though, with a corresponding S/PDIF digital input.

External DAC what is this and what are the costs please. I have spotify on my puter and when the music is playing loud its not to bad but inbetween songs its horrible. I will look all this up anyway and thanks for the replies guys. If I get it solved I will let you know.