I have bought some phillips surround 5.1 multimedia speakers. I only have one 3.5mm headphone socket on the ..

Question

laptop. there are three leads coming from the speakers. One front, one rear and one from the centre subwoofers. i have bought a small double headphone adapter and plugged two of leads from the speakers in. I get some sound but its not very loud. Is there any connecter that i could buy to connect the speakers to a usb socket of some sort of amp i could connect between the laptop and speakers?

Answer 1

DON'T use a splitter to connect pairs of plugs together - you may damage the amp in the speaker system.

You may be able to reconfigure your laptop's sockets in software. Look for a sound icon (not the volume one) next to the clock, bottom right on the taskbar.

My laptop has a little blue & yellow icon for the AC97 audio, called 'sound effect' Clicking on it allows me to reconfigure 2, 4 or 6 channel output.

You may have similar (or a little icon like a 'crab' for Realtek audio, commonly used on laptops)

Email me your exact system details & I'll help further if you're stuck.

Answer 2

you get a USB sound card and make sure it is for 5.1 /

it should come with some software as well costs about 40aud

this should solve the problem .

any computer hardware store should have it

good luck

Answer 3

You have incompatible components. The laptop is delivering an analog stereo signal (left/right, via one 3.5 mm jack). The 5.1 speakers are powered computer surround speakers that require 3 x 3.5 mm jacks.  You can't feed stereo to a surround system and expect to get true surround.

At best you can use "Y" adapters to combine the signals ... but that's a kludge, and could even do damage. You can't use USB and an amplifier won't help because the speakers have their own amp built in (and you can't amp and amp).  Unless the laptop has 3 jacks for sound output --- a few do -- you are out of luck.

I suggest you take the speakers back and trade them for some good stereo speakers or a 2.1 model that accept input via a single 3.5 mm jack.

Answer 4

Just use the green one in audio out. You can also by adapters which change the size of the jack, if that's the problem.