weres the sound?

[bormann]

ok well my uncle gave me these old junk speakers that hardly gave any sound, so i bought some new ones (a pair of $10 phillips speakers) and i find out they werent any uch better. for my first cominuin i got a radio with these big speakers that blared musik, so i thought i would wire one of them to the phillips, iwas succsesful but, they didnt make any difference, i was wundering why the sound was so weak, was it the sound card or the speakers?