Sound Question

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Originally posted by: Noob

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I'm fairly certain that you can reassign the jacks to do 5.1 duty... but I've never had that board so I could be wrong.

Have you tried it before? I'm thinking there's an option you can select with the sound utility that will change the 3 jacks from stereo, line-in, mic
to front, rear, center/sub

I don't know. I have never tried. But how could it be physically possible to fit 5 speaker jacks into 3 jacks. But I don't know if this is how it works so I am just assuming.

5.1 is only 3 speaker jacks.

Stereo is only 1 right? That's a signal for 2 speakers. If you take out the jack, you'll see that there's an end metal part, a piece of plastic, then another metal piece, than a piece of plastic, and then another metal piece.

This one cable is able to send 2 signals at once. In 5.1 mode, 1 cable does the fronts, 1 cable does the rears, and one cable does the center and sub. For 5.1 you need 6 signals and that means 3 jacks.