Sound Cards/Speakers/Headphones...how stupid am I?

[boomer6447]

Okay...got a good deal on some new speakers for my PC at home....Got the Labtec 2422..with sub-woofer.
Had a set of Koss SX-50, with the headphone jack in the speaker. These new speakers don't have that headphone jack , so I've been trying to figure out a way to use headphones, since my PC is in the living room and my kids constantly play on the PC when wife and I are trying to watch TV.
I bought a 8mm Y splitter to run from the back of the soundcard. Plugged one into the speakers and one into the headphones...
got normal sound from speakers...got ALMOST NO volume from the headphones.
Figured out that I probably need some sort of amplification between the soundcard and the headphones...??? (this is when the how stupid am I comes into play). The headphones I bought were nice Sony ones, with a volume control on the wire...I stupidly assumed
that the volume control would help, but nada, nothing, zilch, almost no sound from the headphones...

Any ideas? I've looked on the net today for amplified headphones, didn't really see too much. Any other ways to get around this problem, short of buying speakers with a headphone jack?

 

[ojai00]

What sound card are you using? You might have to enable something like with my sound card. I'm using the Santa Cruz, and I have my speakers plugged into the main output jack, and my stereo speakers and headphones split on the secondary output jack. Just make sure that your splitter is a stereo splitter. If you have a mono one, you will get the sound from the left side of your headphones while you get sound coming from the right side of your speakers. Hope this helps.

 

[LoneWolf1]

What you need is something like this

 

[jiffylube1024]

Also for the headphones make sure that the sound output in windows is up all the way to 100% (usually when using speakers most people don't set their windows sound to 100%).