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How to Connect 5.1 Speakers to Your PC
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Tutorials Last Updated: December 28, 2005
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Installing Your Speaker System On Your PC

The installation will depend if your PC has separated outputs for rear and center/subwoofer speakers or not. Let’s talk about both scenarios.

PCs With Separated Rear and Center/Subwoofer Outputs

In this case you should make the connection like this:

  • Front cable (green): To green jack (line out).
  • Rear cable (blue or black): To blue jack (not the one right next to the green jack) or black jack (rear out). Pay attention since the blue jack we are talking about is not the same as line in (see Figure 8).
  • Center/Subwoofer cable (orange, yellow or pink): To orange or yellow jack.

We show this in Figure 10.

Installing 6-channel Speaker System
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Figure 10: How to connect the speaker system on a PC with separated rear and center/subwoofer outputs.

You will now need to configure your PC, like we will explain in the next page.

PCs Without Separated Rear and Center/Subwoofer Outputs

In this case you should make the connection like this:

  • Front cable (green): To green jack (line out).
  • Rear cable (blue or black): To blue jack (line in).
  • Center/Subwoofer cable (orange, yellow or pink): To pink jack (mic in).

We show this in Figure 11 (please forget that our PC had separated surround outputs).

Installing 6-channel Speaker System
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Figure 11: How to connect the speaker system on a PC without separated rear and center/subwoofer outputs.

You will now need to configure your PC, like we will explain in the next page.

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