Cable Forum - View Single Post - Just bought a 5.1 speaker setup. Help solve some issues please.

01-05-2005, 21:04

I had the same problem, I bought a 3.5mm splitter cable male to 2 female, the male plugs in the 5.1 speakers amp 'line in' & one female to a 3.5mm male to male coming from 'spkr out' on the sound card. This handles 'normal sound' like cd's, the telly and software DVD players.

- the headphones plug into the other female when needed.

- drawbacks are that plugging in the headphones doesn't mute the sound & leaving them plugged in attenuates the sound to the main speakers.

As for external dvd player, I don't have a 5.1 soundcard, so I use an spdif coax lead from an external player to the 5.1 speakers amp. But this only works if either the player or the speakers amp has a dolby decoder - mine is in the amp.

01-05-2005, 21:04	#3
homealone Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Just bought a 5.1 speaker setup. Help solve some issues please. I had the same problem, I bought a 3.5mm splitter cable male to 2 female, the male plugs in the 5.1 speakers amp 'line in' & one female to a 3.5mm male to male coming from 'spkr out' on the sound card. This handles 'normal sound' like cd's, the telly and software DVD players. - the headphones plug into the other female when needed. - drawbacks are that plugging in the headphones doesn't mute the sound & leaving them plugged in attenuates the sound to the main speakers. As for external dvd player, I don't have a 5.1 soundcard, so I use an spdif coax lead from an external player to the 5.1 speakers amp. But this only works if either the player or the speakers amp has a dolby decoder - mine is in the amp.