MatMan- thanks, thats what I was looking for.

brsaw - yes the desk is against the wall, but putting the speakers back will put them behind the monitor, and I wont have direct line of "listening".

Alan - My computer (a desktop) does have a basic equalizer, but that does not work the way I'd like it to. When I up the bass frequencies 3 to 6db, what really seems to happen is that the treble is decreased a proportional amount to make it seem like there is more bass. For example I was trying out the EQ while playing a game, and raising the bass frequencies any amount caused the rain sound in game to simply go away. Remove the bass boost, and the rain sound came back. That's not acceptable to me. I was recently told about an EQ program called "PEACE", but have not tried it.

I'll post again when I have an update.