How to feed multi input sound system from one output laptop?
I have a killer speaker system that I used to have hooked up to my desktop PC. It's a Creative Inspire 5.1 (5300)
The PC had your typical sound card with multi channel output. No problem with a triple mini RCA out of the sound card into the speaker system with 3 inputs. Big subwoofer on the floor under my desk, a speaker in each corner of the room plus one center speaker on my desk. It worked great.
Well, genius here decided to take it out of storage where it's been for years and hook it up to my laptop. I tore my office apart, and my desk area to do this. I'm sure you see where this is going.....
So I mounted 5 speakers, ran the wiring, put the sub on the floor hooked everything up and went to plug it into my laptop.
I managed to make it this far before dummy me remembered that the laptop only has one sound output. :S:S
Sighhhh, sometimes I wonder about me.
My question is, does anyone know of a device that will take a single output and turn it to a multi output for this purpose. I know I likely won't get the separation of a true 5.1 sound system, but thats ok, I just want to use my nice speaker system. The onboard speakers sound like 2 tin cans on a string... So does the cheapo pair of desktop speakers I use.
I can get a splitter for taking one output into 2, but I have 3 inputs for my system.
The PC had your typical sound card with multi channel output. No problem with a triple mini RCA out of the sound card into the speaker system with 3 inputs. Big subwoofer on the floor under my desk, a speaker in each corner of the room plus one center speaker on my desk. It worked great.
Well, genius here decided to take it out of storage where it's been for years and hook it up to my laptop. I tore my office apart, and my desk area to do this. I'm sure you see where this is going.....
So I mounted 5 speakers, ran the wiring, put the sub on the floor hooked everything up and went to plug it into my laptop.
I managed to make it this far before dummy me remembered that the laptop only has one sound output. :S:S
Sighhhh, sometimes I wonder about me.
My question is, does anyone know of a device that will take a single output and turn it to a multi output for this purpose. I know I likely won't get the separation of a true 5.1 sound system, but thats ok, I just want to use my nice speaker system. The onboard speakers sound like 2 tin cans on a string... So does the cheapo pair of desktop speakers I use.
I can get a splitter for taking one output into 2, but I have 3 inputs for my system.
