Hi I am trying to put together a computer karaoke system. I have transferred all my karaoke on a 250gb hard drive. I am running Mimic Audition Advanced Hoster and it works great. I purchased the Soundblaster Audigy Platinum sound card and some good microphones.
My question is do I need to use a mixer/ amplifier and if so what do you recommend? Is there a good brand? I have a surround sound system but would it be better to use regular speakers?

Any information would be helpful.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I would suggest an amp/mixer combo like a Fender. These look like an amp box, with mike inputs on the front. I have a Fender 300, that has six mike inputs and a separate hook-up for CD with a 9 band equalizer. You just plug your sound card outputs into the RCA plugs and you can run everything from it.

Check out Berringer 2000 mixer / amp a great buy at £250 from Victor Morris in Glasgow. hacve a look at the specs in the beringer web page.
It'll last a life time.

Great shop Victor Morris aint been in there for years though.I use a dynacord powermate bought it 2 yrs ago now great bit of stuff.The price are still high though think they r around £800-£900 still.But you can really have great effects when ppl are singing and therefor emakes them feel good even if wiothout it they r s***.A bit like me self ............but hey i only host.