I recently bought a Toshiba 17-inch laptop with 8GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive with Windows 8.1 installed. I am operating it with a wireless USB-coupled keyboard, so it behaves to me virtually as a desktop machine. I bought a middle-of-the-line three-piece set of "Windows" speakers from Radio Shack, and I have turned the "bass volume control" on the "subwoofer" to max; but the system does not deliver a very good bass response using the Windows Media Ap of Windows 8.1. I have not tried to play music through my good-quality home stereo, but I have used a pair of headphones which gave only fair bass output. I wonder whether WinAmp or some other piece of software would sound better on the laptop (I know of course that the built-in laptop speakers won't sound much better than the $19.95 pocket transistor radios we used to find). I have also considered teh possibility of getting another soundcard or something to couple by USB or BlueTooth for playing music. This setup would probably buy me another advantage: I could perhaps route music through that "box" and Window-Eyes speech through the Toshiba's built-in soundcard. I will appreciate any advice any of you might have.
Thanks. David Plumlee
