5 speaker setup on a macbook

[thejnaitor]

Hey guys,

I tried doing some searching on google but couldn't really find anything relevant to what I'm trying to do. I have a 5 speaker Logitech system that I have hooked up to my pc soundcard fine because it has connections for all 3 cables I need to plug in. However, on my macbook there is only one connection that I can plug in to at a time, so I only get sound out of the center speaker, the two front speakers or the two rear speakers, depending on which cable I have connected. My question is this: is it possible to get sound out of all 5 speakers at once? If so, what is the cheapest way to do this?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

What speaker set is it? If it's something along the lines of z-5300 you might have a "Matrix" setting that would give you fake surround from a stereo source.


If not,
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/produ...etails/US/EN,CRID=2177,CONTENTID=10036

Add an adapter

and you're good to go with stereo mapped to all speakers.


If you need true surround, you'd have to get some sort of external soundcard but I don't know anything about what would work with your mac.

 

[thejnaitor]

Oh my gosh. Beautiful! That's exactly what I am looking for. This solves both my problem of being able to hook all 5 speakers up to the macbook but also being able to hook my wii up to my speakers! Thanks a ton for the info and links. I really appreciate it.

 

[themisfit610]

Indeed. Just remember that it's not true 5.1. If you want real 5.1, then you need a USB / FireWire sound card, that has drivers for x86 Mac OS X!

 

[thejnaitor]

Yeah, I don't really care about real 5.1 because I don't even use the speakers in a 5.1 setup... hehe. I bought them because they were cheap and had good ratings, I simply want all 5 speakers to produce sound, and this fits the bill.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: thejnaitor
Oh my gosh. Beautiful! That's exactly what I am looking for. This solves both my problem of being able to hook all 5 speakers up to the macbook but also being able to hook my wii up to my speakers! Thanks a ton for the info and links. I really appreciate it.

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