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Message: [QUOTE="TeddyG, post: 209497, member: 49191"] I'm not here to question anyone's response, so far, as I can't - I just don't know. What I can say is that if you are not hearing the same sound AFTER running it through your computer, that you hear from the headphone jack on the keyboard that something is "wrong"(Using the same headphones to judge, of course.). For instance: Keyboards, for the most part, are rather "consumer-type" unbalanced, devices, often using 1/4" TS, as opposed to many soundcards using 1/4"(Or XLR) TRS. There can at least be a level difference. Not a huge problem, but something that must be recognized and dealt with. You might check the "pinouts" for your soundcard and keyboard and how the cables, themselves, are wired. Cables(Irrespective of price) are not neccessarily wired as you might expect(Usually, but..?). A check with the manuals and a simple DVM will tell what's where. I've avoided some of these problems by running my unbalanced keyboard cables to mixer unbalanced inputs then running the mixer balanced outs to the sound card - though putting a mixer "in the middle" can change the sound, too - everything can... Optimally, BOTH keyboard outputs and sound card inputs should be ALL THE WAY UP!(With the keyboard UP the priority, as Remy, says, though a soundcard, using digital level control can be problematic - even with pricey sound cards where excellent ears may hear a difference.). If this is too much level, try BOTH methods of level control - with the soundcard and then with the keyboard - leaving one or the other all the way up, to hear what works best. Again, running through the mixer allows both sc and kb to be all the way up, as I adjust level with the mixer(Also again, not necessarily the best way either - who's to say the mixer does that good a job? Not me! I don't know? I can only say there is no audible difference between kb hp out and sc hp out to my old ears.). You also mentioned your "cheap" headphone amp. An easy "possible" to check into, to see if it's giving you all you need. You may BE doing fine, otherwise? Try another headphone amp of some sort to at least hear if there's any "big" change? Number of connections is not nearly the problem as number of "bad" connections, where even one bad apple, etc(Took me a week to "find" the MIDI cable that was in the wrong jack - 'cause I just KNEW it wasn't. Ha!)... Length of reasonable quality cables is not often a problem, either(Despite the pricey cable ads to the contrary - again Ha!), but, if you can get away with 2 6 footers, sted 2 20 footers, I would, with any install of any kind of cable - just because(Less to trip over? Less for the cats to "find" and chew-up? Of course, less of an RF antenna - never a bad thing if rarely a worrisome thing...). TG [/QUOTE]

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