Can i do this?

[Hawkeye178]

I am planning on buying some speakers and I want to know if I can have a set of 2 speakers and a subwoofer use 4 speakers. I want to use a line spliter to get 2 outputs not 1. What I want to know is if I can have true surrondsound. Or, will I have the same sound from all speakers.

[jak]

hmm,
im pretty sure ull need a receiver that can separate the different channels into surround sound. otherwise im thinking ull jsut be getting like a stereo sound from all the speakers. not a surround sound.like on ceratin dvd movies, if this is what ur talkin bout, u can hear sumthin coming up from the back left then rushing towards the fron left, but u might end up with thtat sound coming from all the speakers, just get a receiver with a surround sound set of speakers and hook ur audio out to that, it wil be in the same price range but mroe powerful, bass would be better too.
jak

[Warthog]

No, you have to have a reciever to have true surround sound, as jak said.

What speakers are you going to buy? What's your budget?

Warthog

[Scorpio69]

I use an SB Live! value (front and rear outputs) and Klipsch ProMedia v.2-400. This has been replaced by ProMedia 4.1 (newer version). Front and rear satellites and a 240w sub. They also have a 5.1 rig now. I'm itchin' to check that one out.

I paid $250 for my v.2-400. All I can say is, worth every penny. The 4.1 currently goes for $299, and the 5.1 is $399.

[Hawkeye178]

My budget is under a $100.00 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif, but now I'm thinking about building my own as an alternative. Any other responses would be great http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

Thanks,
Hawkeye178

[hallam2003]

get a turtle beach santa cruz, ($70), and then get a few speaker sets and hook them up, you have 5 pluges on the back of this card, two are for a mic, and an input, ignore for this topic. the other three are you CENTER, FRONT and REAR channels. I'd skip the center channel, for now anyway. pick up some cheap-midpriced speakers, what ever you want to get, depending on you speaker selection, i'd say you could get it for at or a little over 100. assume USD here.

hallam

[Hawkeye178]

That may be your best choice george.

[hallam2003]

PS, you might wnat to wait untill you can ge a true 5.1 speaker set-up, especially if your into good audio quality. while my recomended set-up will work just fine, and probably pump out more volume(depending on speakers), you're probably going to loos clarity, and you qon't be able to define differnt challens a lot of times. BUT, if you're into un-godly powerfull speaker set-ups, this will work great, for around your price range too. this works good for music, oinly in 2 channel mostly, and for movies and gaming, it still give you that surronding feeling, that 5.1 speakers produce, just get;s kinda overpowering sometime, and try to get the smae spekers, or else it kinda messes up with the crossover timimgs and stuff like that.

hallam