How to connect 5.1 speakers to your computer?

Instruction on how to deal with a bunch of wires from audio 5.1 and properly connect it to Your computer.

Instruction

Difficulty level: Difficult

What you will need:

actually, the audio system 5.1

sound card with support for 5.1

3 cable "red-white tulips --- Jack 3.5mm"

step 1

The connectors on the subwoofer

Let's start from the basics.

As You know, (I hope you know), 5, and 1 is the number of audio channels in the audio signal. That is why we have, roughly speaking, 6 columns: the subwoofer is denoted SW) main giant in our system, the low frequency column to create bass; two front speakers (they are called FrontLeft (left) and FrontRight (right), and are denoted by FL and FR (see photo)); two rear (called either RearLeft (left) and RearRight (right), or SurroundLeft/SurroundRight (RL/RR or SL/SR, respectively) and one center speaker (Center indicated CEN ).

Knowing all this, you can proceed to the process connection

2 step

We need 3 slots of zvukovoy

Now Your task is to connect all these 6 channels (2 front, 2 rear and subwoofer+center) to the connectors on your sound card. It is easy to guess that the connecting 6 PAIRS combined channels at the output we should get all 3. And those 3 output should look like as shown in photo

3 step

Cable "tulips - Jack 3.5 mm"

That is, the connection process is as follows:

two Tulip connected to the front speakers should go to the green Jack of the sound card

two Tulip , is connected to the rear speakers should go (usually) black nest of zvukovoy

two Tulip connected to the subwoofer and the center should go (usually) orange slot

ATTENTION! Pairwise tulips should be inserted in the Audio Input section 5.1 , because the Audio Output section (sometimes this section is not named in any way) are inserted single tulips, running it from the speakers! The only way You can get true 5.1 surround sound.

step 4

Configuration 5.1 in Windows

Now that all the wires scattered on the appropriate sockets, You just need to log in to the Windows control Panel, select Sound (or first, Hardware and sound), then the Speakers and click the Configure button . Here select 5.1 Surround , click Next and voila!