Sound Drowning problem (Soundblaster ZX) Any help welcome :)

[Al-Dazzlez]

Hi all!

So basically my PC has a SB ZX sound card and when I play some music, the speakers it is connected to (speakers are old, so through red white cable to 3.5mm converter I connected them to the speaker controller).

Now when I play some music, if the spectrum climaxes, the music automatically drowns itself out.
I am unsure if it is the sound card itself doing this but i am sure it has some control over this effect as when I connect my phone to the speakers via same cable, the drown affect is significantly lowered but still present.

Now I am unsure what this effect is called and my information on describing it is very vague so Google couldn't help much :/

PS By drowning I mean this; for example Avenged seven fold's Nightmare, the xylophone is perfect, but when the drums hit the volume lowers completely, and a further example, Evanescence - My Immortal, when the instruments end at the end of the sound and its Piano and her voice only, the volume goes back up again.

Now I am sort of an 'Audiophile' if you will in the sense that I may have some info greater than others, but I am no pro, so even if this effects presence was something I knew the location or source of, I still wouldn't know how to control it or minimize it :/
Thanks in advance.

i7 4770k
ASRocK z87 fatal1ty Killer
GTX 760 2-way SLI
Sound Blaster ZX sound card
and the said phone is a GT-I9100 SGSII running stock system custom rooted kernel.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You need to buy proper PC speakers to match the capabilities of your card (eg stereo, 2.1, 5.1, or 7.1 surround).

 

[Al-Dazzlez]

So Do you think it is because my speakers are practically half as old as me? (its an old Hi-Fi system with separate speakers )

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Like I said, you need to buy a proper 5.1 speaker set designed for a PC.

Buying a high-quality surround-sound card and then connecting a old set of HiFi system speakers to it is pointless.

Give your Soundblaster card a quality set of PC speakers it was designed for if you expect it to work properly, otherwise there's no point in buying that card in the first place.

It's hard to believe your an audiophile if you've rigged up an old set speakers that weren't even designed for a PC.
The impedance of those old HiFi speakers is probably way off what it needs to be for a PC sound card.

 

[Al-Dazzlez]

LOL yeah I had them lying about, and since I am busy I barely get time to check things out, planning on getting Rokit 5's by KRK when I get around to it or that corsair 2000 set maybe or the Z906, for now it does the job - but as you said the current ones are way off. (I usually just use my SRH940's on the card anyway, they are there for the odd moments I dont use a headphone)
I also later found out that it was actually the fact that I had a double sound split that my brother had hooked up very stealthily, so the sound was split between two devices even though one was off - again, impedance issue probably.

Also, dont mistake me for an audiophile, im not that hardcore, as I said, in a certain sense of knowledge ~maybe~ but not complete one XD (wish though)
Thanks for the reply after 2 months though, appreciate it.