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    External [portable] subwoofer

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Neubeehunhun, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. Neubeehunhun

    Neubeehunhun Notebook Evangelist

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    Does such a thing exists? Basically I'm looking for a slim portable subwoofer that I can carry around with my xps 14.

    Like the one in xps 15/17 but with a case and some sort of power source from my lappy. Or even from an electric outlet, as long as it's slim and portable.
     
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    Thanks for the links, the second one looks like exactly what I wanted, but the I only found 1 on amazon, it's used and still cost 75bucks. Too bad it's discontinued(maybe because of the price, lol)


    Not exactly looking for a speaker+subwoofer as the original speakers on my rig are good enough.

    Edit: oh wait, it's 60bucks on the apple store, still a bit pricy. Might purchase it if there's no other substitute, thanks again, zippoman
     
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    If you mean the on-board speakers in the laptop, you may be out of luck. In my experience, as soon as you plug into the sound-out jack, the on-board speakers are disabled.

    Too bad, it would be good to be able to use the on-board speakers and supplement them with a small external woofer or a couple of small external speakers. As it is, if you want to use any external sound, you lose the on-board speakers.
     
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    When I plug my regular headphone into the middle headphone jack, the realtek audio program actually asked me what I plugged in, and there are options for headphone, front speaker, rear speaker and subwoofer.
     
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