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==== 2.1 Analog out from your desktop motherboard or laptop headphone jack. ====

A cable like a [https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=665 1/8” to stereo RCA] from monoprice allows you to hook up the headphone jack from your computer to many stereo amplifiers and home audio receivers. In my setup, I do not have a receiver that is capable of video - I have a [https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/eqpns1/rotel_rb1090_added_to_my_system_this_evening/ 30 year old Rotel RB-1090 tank] with RCA input, so this is what I would use to hook up my laptop or a desktop to my stereo if I didn’t have a separate audio interface.

If you don’t wait to wait for an order, you can also [https://www.walmart.com/ip/onn-6-AUX-to-RCA/1342171538 buy these at your local walmart].

'''Why this will suck''':

The analog audio output from your motherboard is often horrible because you have so much else going on in there. Your GPU, CPU, RAM, are all high bandwidth devices, you have everything on a single circuit board. Things have improved vastly in this regard since I was young and dealt with the horrors of trash like the ac97, where there was audible hissing &amp; warbling that changed in pitch &amp; intensity when you dragged windows around the screen, and weird high frequency sounds depending on the sensitivity of your stereo system. However, it is often still there.

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