[Drivesthebeast]

My HK kit has champagne glass shaped satellites with dual 1" mid/tweets, and it has a 5.25" subwoofer in a small enclosure that ports into the floor. The amp is rated at 6 watts RMS for the satellites, and 28 watts RMS for the sub, and this thing has an HK class A amp in it. The sub is actually rated down to 35hz. I've had this kit connected to my parents home PC, and it was stupid loud for it's size...sounded like a home stereo in the computer room. Right now it's connected to my Toshiba Satellite Laptop.

I'm thinking that there IS internal programming that is limiting the soundcards output levels, or whatever else determines this to save the headphone speakers in the laptop, and/or the headphone jack.

I know that there are USB exernal pre-amps...would that be a better avenue then to modify my laptop?