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anyone got a 5.1 system?

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hey guys, i recently got a new motherboard, a gigabyte, and supposenly it has a build in 5.1 surround sound mode in the ac97. on my last motherboard, i just used a headphone splitter, thus all the speakers played the same stuff the entire time, no realy surround sound. but m question is, on my motherboard, whenever i plug the speackers into the sound card, no matter wat combos i choose, always atleast oen speacker DOES not work. how does a 5.1 speacker system work should all the speackers constantly play the same thing, or does it work like 3 main speackers, and 2 "extra" sound speackers.
thanks for looking
 
For listening to music, the data on a music CD or MP3 is in stereo (2 channels, left speaker, and right speaker).

For movies, the DolbyDigital/DTS soundtracks on the DVD's contain 6 channels: Front left and right, rear left and right, and Center. (or sometimes 7 channels) of sound data.

In other words, when you play an mp3, you will have a left channel, and a right channel, but often, you can "matrix" the sound either in your soundcard options, or on the speakers themselves (logitech's in some cases), to also come out either 4 speakers, or sometimes even 5 speakers.

While this might 'surround' you in sound, keep in mind that it's just the same data coming out of every speaker, rather than like in a movie, where you hear sound placement behind you, that doesnt come out of the front speakers.

First, let us know what speakers you are using. Second, put a DVD in there, and configure your DVD software for Analog 5.1 channel.

If you have everything plugged in right, (and you actually do have 5.1 speakers). You should have one plug for the front two speakers, one plug for the rear two speakers, and one plug for the Center/Subwoofer channel.

Let us know how you have things plugged in, what you are trying to play (music, or DVD), and what speakers you have, then we can help diagnose what the problem is.
 
With 5.1 and up, it is very easy to mess up when connecting the cables...

Triple check ALL your speaker, subwoofer, soundcard, etc plugs and make sure they all go to the right place...for example, if you aren't getting any sound from the subwoofer AND a speaker, you probably confused those two plugs...
 
ok, hers a litle update

with my mobo came a "surround sound" bracket connecter fort eh pci slot, i hooked it up, and it contains a connector for just the subwoofer. in ac 97 sound control in windows, i chaged it to 5.1, and it made it so the sub will run from the pci surround card, and left/right speackers will be plugged into two of the three holes int he integrated sound card. now, i got 3 speackers to play the main sounds., and teh two "surround ones" play a little less sound, i ques ill considers that the backup sounds when i play a dvd.

thanks alot, i understand it alot more.

but my other question is. with your 5.1 system, did u set it so that EVERY speacker plays the exact same thing? so its just like a 2.1 mode but with more speackers? or did u guys actaully set it up so itll have the 5.1 affect. thanks!

aha, any suggestions wat a headphone adapter would do?
 
with my nforce soundstorm, I need to select a Hardware audio setting in the soundstorm options, and it will then play mp3's and other 2 speaker sounds through all four speakers.
 
Originally posted by KingPariah777
with my nforce soundstorm, I need to select a Hardware audio setting in the soundstorm options, and it will then play mp3's and other 2 speaker sounds through all four speakers.
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I've been doing 5.1 for three years now (since I bought my Inspire 5.1 5300s in 2001 to team up with my original Audigy X-Gamer 5.1), and Creative has always had an *upmix* option in the Speaker Settings (however, it requires that you use Creative's applications to take advantage of this for MP3s and most stereo sources). The Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (released in 2000) was Creative's first sound card to support Dolby Digital decoding.

If you have the Live 5.1 or later, use the EAX Control Panel to activate CMSS (or CMSS 2 for those Audigy/2/ZS/LS owners) and choose your preferred sound environment (I generally use Concert Hall for MP3s and Theater for non-Dolby video). For Dolby-encoded content, I use ATI DVD Player (included with ATI Multimedia Center) whch supports Creative's Dolby Digital decoding schema.
 
When listening to mp3's I just used creatives cmss (as mentioned above). It works pretty well. For games and movies you definetely don't want all the speakers playing the same sound. That defeats the whole point of 5.1 speakers.

Btw. I have an audigy 2zs and logitech z-680's
 
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