I listen to music in my room through my iMac. My PC has no music, I just use it for gaming. I have a sweet Logitech 5.1 surround sound system that I want to connect to my iMac. The problem I have is the iMac only has one audio in port. The 5.1 system requires 3 special ports that PCs have: front speakers, back speakers, and sub woofer. Does an adapter exist for my needs? A 3 to 1 audio adapter of sorts. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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If your imac only has stereo out you're out of luck. I guess you could try a USB soundcard.
shitty PC tbh
shitty PC tbh
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If you do hook them up it won't be real surround sound, it doesn't sound like the iMac supports it or it would have the appropriate jacks.Superior Mind wrote:
I listen to music in my room through my iMac. My PC has no music, I just use it for gaming. I have a sweet Logitech 5.1 surround sound system that I want to connect to my iMac. The problem I have is the iMac only has one audio in port. The 5.1 system requires 3 special ports that PCs have: front speakers, back speakers, and sub woofer. Does an adapter exist for my needs? A 3 to 1 audio adapter of sorts. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
If you have the time I would register and post at http://forums.macnn.com/
You will get the most help there.
You will get the most help there.
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Might something like this work?: http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_d … C637%2C136max wrote:
If your imac only has stereo out you're out of luck. I guess you could try a USB soundcard.
shitty PC tbh
I'm not sure if it supports OSX, but if it does it should work
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
What is this? A problem with an iMac? Nooo, nooo, you'ge got to be kidding, those things always work perfectly fine for, and are 100% compatible with everything.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Freezer7Pro wrote:
What is this? A problem with an iMac? Nooo, nooo, you'ge got to be kidding, those things always work perfectly fine for, and are 100% compatible with everything.
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I'm not going to buy that. I saw that it wasn't OSX compatible.I just posted it as an example of the type of device I may need.
To all of you who simply posted some Mac hatred, thank you, that helped.
I just threw out my mac and have done away with whatever problems it would've brought forth. Fuck you.
I understand the limitations of Macs. That's why I consulted the techies for assistance.
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Im telling you, consult the MacNN techies, they actually give out helpful responses
you need something like 
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
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Thanks for the tip. I may just invest in an external hard drive, dump all of my music in to it (~35GB) and hook up the speakers to my Mac. Right now I have the two back speakers along with the sub woofer playing some pleasant background CCR.GodFather wrote:
you need something like http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/ … 055-04.jpg
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
Last edited by Superior Mind (2008-10-20 18:53:16)
Get two and daisy chain them, thus 3 in the end.GodFather wrote:
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
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Ultimately I need one male in order to plug in to the Mac's female.Defiance wrote:
Get two and daisy chain them, thus 3 in the end.GodFather wrote:
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
Such a well behaved thread.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Ive figured it outSuperior Mind wrote:
Ultimately I need one male in order to plug in to the Mac's female.Defiance wrote:
Get two and daisy chain them, thus 3 in the end.GodFather wrote:
but 3 female 3.5mm's
you wont get the SURROUND sound, but you will get sound from all speakers
buy two of theese
Plug the first one into your Mac, then take one of the males from your speaker system and plug it into one of them, now take the other one and plug the splitter into the split wire, now plug the other two in
basically like the engineering drawings below
Last edited by GodFather (2008-10-20 20:07:21)
negative. Sending a normal signal to you woofer is generally a bad idea. If you're too cheap to buy a usb soundcard look for a mode in you speakers that upmixes to 4 or 5 speakers. It's called stereo x2 on mine
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If his sub doesn't have the hardware to separate treb and bass, it probably won't even matter what input it gets, it'll sound crap anyhow.max wrote:
negative. Sending a normal signal to you woofer is generally a bad idea. If you're too cheap to buy a usb soundcard look for a mode in you speakers that upmixes to 4 or 5 speakers. It's called stereo x2 on mine
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
lol, what the fuck is the point of having a 5.1 sound system if your just gonna send the same signal front and rear?
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That's what's troubling. I'll buy a USB sound card so I can get true 5.1.VicktorVauhn wrote:
lol, what the fuck is the point of having a 5.1 sound system if your just gonna send the same signal front and rear?
Currently no detriment is being done to the sub woofer. The male input for the rear speakers/sub are plugged in to my iPod. I faded the sound all the way to the rear on the controller. So it thinks that all of the speakers are plugged in but the front and centers are just faded out 100%. I did this so as I could get bass along with 2 speakers rather than just setting it to the 2 speakers setting which would exclude the bass. The sound is full, just not surround.
Don't fret, I'm no audio idiot.
Last edited by Superior Mind (2008-10-21 04:54:23)
What model iMac is it? What speaker set is it? Provided it's a newer one and you have digital speakers, you should easily be able to get surround sound using the audio out port which doubles as a SPDIF out.
Give it up Bert, mac's suckBertster7 wrote:
What model iMac is it? What speaker set is it? Provided it's a newer one and you have digital speakers, you should easily be able to get surround sound using the audio out port which doubles as a SPDIF out.
I know..Sup wrote:
Give it up Bert, mac's suckBertster7 wrote:
What model iMac is it? What speaker set is it? Provided it's a newer one and you have digital speakers, you should easily be able to get surround sound using the audio out port which doubles as a SPDIF out.
Probably better than most. Mac's are, particularly from a hardware perspective, complete and absolute shite.
But in this instance, and in the rather specific set of circumstances I outlined earlier, an iMac can be used for a logitech 5.1 system.
That's exactly what daisy chaining is.GodFather wrote:
Ive figured it outSuperior Mind wrote:
Ultimately I need one male in order to plug in to the Mac's female.Defiance wrote:
Get two and daisy chain them, thus 3 in the end.
Plug the first one into your Mac, then take one of the males from your speaker system and plug it into one of them, now take the other one and plug the splitter into the split wire, now plug the other two in
basically like the engineering drawings below