Bought monitor with speakers...now what??

[eganders]

Why do they sell monitors with speakers and sound cards with no
amplifier? How do they expect you to deal with this? Now for the 2nd
time I am faced with this. I just bought a monitor with speakers for a
G4 Mac. The Mac has a sound card output at line level (can power
headphones). I need an amplifier, but I don';t want to purchase some
big thing, just enough for sound that will be better than I will get if
I plug the speakers into the headphone output. I had that for about 4
years on my PC and "endured" it.

Is there an amp for this purpose?

[DaveW]

The monitor's speakers have a builtin LOW POWER amplifier for driving them
from a line level sound card output. You CANNOT use an external amplifier
with your setup, it would be of no use.

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DaveW

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"eganders" > wrote in message
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> Why do they sell monitors with speakers and sound cards with no
> amplifier? How do they expect you to deal with this? Now for the 2nd
> time I am faced with this. I just bought a monitor with speakers for a
> G4 Mac. The Mac has a sound card output at line level (can power
> headphones). I need an amplifier, but I don';t want to purchase some
> big thing, just enough for sound that will be better than I will get if
> I plug the speakers into the headphone output. I had that for about 4
> years on my PC and "endured" it.
>
> Is there an amp for this purpose?
>