Soundcard needed with 3 seperate outs - sugestions plz

Hi,

I am looking for a sound card that can power 3 seperate 2.1 sets of speakers all with the same sound at the same time. IE 1 mp3 playing will be heard on all 3 sets, not a diff sound on each.

If the above does not exsist my Mobo has built in 5.1 sound, would this work in conjunction with two other seperate cards to give me the 3 I need if the above lone card does not exsist?

I want to put them in different rooms of my new house - ie Computer room, Kitchen, passage, etc


Does such a card exsist, Ive looked and can't find anything. Any suggestions apreciated

Mickey

 

3 sets of 1-2 3.5mm splitters?

 

I rand a few places and they all said that splitters degrade quality by 50%.

So if I use 3 connections, I will only have 33% of the sound quality I should have.

 

now that's pretty much insane. counting sound quality in % :/...
for sure the volume may decrease, but sound quality? what do you mean?

 

Youd have to ring Maplins necastle for him to explain as Im no master in this hence my thread.

I dont think he ment exact percent though, more an example.

He said something along the lines of if theres one signal, splitting it wil reduce the quality and splitting it 3 or 4 times would drasticly reduce the quality

 

hm... i think that the ultimate option would be getting an amplifier with enough outs to suit your needs

you could also try airtunes, but im not sure if it will do what you want it to

 

ive looked at an amp but the speakers I already have are internally amped + I like the software mixer etc you get with a soundcard

 

Pfff.

2.1 is what: 2 outputs?? : one for sub and one for stereo, right?

All you need is two splitters on two output ports and plug in the two sets of speakers into them. You'd loose 50% volume, perhaps, because the voltage is split but then you just up the vol on the speakers. I cant see how you'd loose that much quality. Try it, the splitters are only a couple of quid so if it's not good enough then go for an expensive amp.

 

2.1 is 1 output. The sub normally automatically takes off the bass in most sets.

Just get a 5.1 soundcard and set the outputs to all take the same audio.

Simple as.

 

I've had quite a few sound cards, and I've never once seen an option to do that.

 

Exactly. Just buy some DECENT quality ones, turn the volume up, and stop whinging.

 

I have, my onboard nVidia does it, I saw it on one of the cheap trust ones aswell

 

strange enoug, my asus is 5.1 also and i can set it up to clone 1 audio out to other aoudio surround outs

 

@ KRITIC

Who the hells whinging??????

You know, I remember a time when this forum was nothing but friendly and fun!!!!!!!!!!

@ valo, any ideas how I would do this. this would give me 4 outputs in mono??

 

No, it would give you three outputs in stereo. 5.1 needs three outputs and on most decent cards you can mirror the outputs. I'm reasonably sure you should be able to do it on any card with an Envy24 chipset, which includes the M-Audio Revolution 5.1/7.1, the Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1LT, the Terratec Aureon 7.1, the Chaintech AV710, and more that I can't remember.

 

3 outputs in stereo would be superb!!

I have the Asus Premium SLI Mobo with realtek 97 sound chip built in.

Ive fiddled with the software and can't find anything to enable this to happen.

Any idea's?

This would be the perfect solution


Would this be a function one of thoes new funky creative cards would be able to do with ease?
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme

 

lmao am i right and thinking this will be 6.3 and why are you wanting 6.3 sound thats crazy. the amount of bass produce would make the sound just sound crap any how.

 

Read the thread before making such comments. Thanks.

 

Comon guys, help the man, and stop being complete arseholes.
I'd have to say a splitter is your best chance, becuase I've never heard of a soundcard that does that.

 

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