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BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Jan 03, 2021

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 tri...
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opnspaces
Navigator II
Jan 04, 2021
You mention an old USB hub. One thing to be aware of is the color of the center of the plug as it indicates the type and speed.

In the link I posted the centers are blue, that means USB 3 The fastest. A USB 2 uses black centers (a bit slower) and a USB 1 uses white centers (really slow). If your old hub has white centers I would probably toss it as USB 1 isn't good for much except maybe a keyboard or mouse input.

Technically there is a USB 4.0, but you're not going to find a hub with it on Amazon.

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