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Yeah baby! Laughing

I just finished tweaking the ghetto sound system I setup on my main computer today. I'm using the onboard Realtek ALC-650 Soundstorm, two 2.1 speaker sets, and a rigged regular speaker set.

I'll get the first two out of the way and then move to the finishing touch. Razz

I took a relatively new Altec Lansing set I paid next to nothing for at newegg and hooked it up to the normal speaker jack on the mobo. It serves as the front stereo speakers, and also has a subwoofer, but I turned it almost off (you'll see why).

Next is the older Altec Lansing 2.1 set. This is where it gets odd. I have it plugged into the mic jack on the mobo and the mobo thinks it's center channel/sub.

Then the topper is the regular speakers I rigged to work as the rear speakers. I took this cheesy powered speaker set my dad got somewhere and took it apart. I figured it might power the speakers if I hooked them up to it. Anyway, it plugs into 110v and has a transformer that normally would power the two dinky speakers, but I soldered speaker wire on to the wires and hooked up the real speakers. It worked!

That let me plug these normal speakers into the mini jack on the mobo, gave me the juice to power them, and gave me a power switch and volume knob. There's also a mini jack on it, dare I hook up ANOTHER set? Laughing

So, put all this together and you get the world's best free 6.2 setup that sounds great (for free).

Now for the pix. The two speakers on the monitor are connected to that box on the floor to the left which acts as the main sub, while the speakers are the center channel. These are plugged into the mic jack.

Then the two speakers on the desk by the monitor are the front channel speakers, and are connected to the sub under the desk (below the monitor, in front of the chair). These are plugged into the speaker jack.

The big speakers are the rear speakers and are plugged into the line in.

After setting that up, I opened the Soundstorm control panel and ran through the speaker wizard and selected "My rear speakers are connected to line in" and "My center channel/sub is connected to the mic", then selected six speakers, analog, no dolby surround.

After tweaking the eq, volume levels for each set, and subs, then adjusting the rear phase, it sounds awesome!

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Due to a not-that-interesting turn of events, I am now known as Justin Danger.