BertieBonafides

thank you for the advice,I'll just invest in a good pair of speakers for now then. All the best!

thanks....I don't blast it out as my neighbours wouldn't be very pleased. I was looking at a lexicon alpha as an audo input/output rather than the jamlab as it might be a better quality dac(rather than on-board sound) for playback of mp3's as it is very cheap on amazon...would that be any improvement over the jamlab?

Hi,I don't own an amp anymore. I currently use an m-audio jamlab to connect to my laptop via usb and I use guitar amp modelling software (gtr3 and amplitube)which allows me to play along to mp3's with my headphones. I would like to upgrade to a better quality interface as the jamlab is very dated although I am having no problems with it soundwise. I would also like to listen to me playing along with my mp3's through speakers in realtime in my bedroom rather than always use headphones but will obviously need speakers that can cope and be able to fill my small bedroom volume wise. I don't need the top quality pricey gear as I am not going to be recording. but don't want the poorest quality gear as that is what I am probably using at the moment. I am going to try and pick up an interface and speakers 2nd hand but don't know which interfaces/speakers are good/bad. I will also be using the speakers to playback only mp3 music so want decent quality soundwise.

thanks for the link,looks like a good forum!

Thank you for the link...I'll try that forum. All the best.

Thanks very much for the recommendation,much appreciated....Could you possibly recommend a decent pair of speakers to go with the focusrite?

Hi,I joined a pc hardware forum a few weeks back but did not get much help so I searched the web for a computer audio forum and joined here to hopefully get some expert help. I am not very knowledgable on Audio and would not consider myself an audiophile. Anyway...I play electric guitar and currently use amp modelling software called Amplitube. At the moment I use an M-Audio Jamlab(very dated) to connect to my PC and play along to my mp3s via amplitube. I would now like to upgrade a bit inorder to do the same thing but get playback through loudspeakers. I have been looking around for a reasonable quality interface to connect my guitar to my laptop but my main problem is choosing a decent quality speaker set up to playback my mp3s and with guitar aswell...I will not be doing any recording whatsoever. I was told I may need a DAC depending on my on-board sound. I was looking at active speakers such as the m-audio AV42 but there are other ways I have seen such as using a hi-fi amp and passive speakers so I am really lost as to what is going to be best for me. Basically I want to beable to connect my laptop to a set of speakers that will allow me to listen to my mp3's in good quality and also allow me to play amplitube through them aswell(amplitube has built-in mp3 player). Volume wise I would like loud enough for a house party