cwhere to connect the headphones on a soundblaster audigy card

easy_as_easy · 24-04-2006 1:02am #1

So, where do I connect the headphones on a soundblaster audigy card? the cable from the front headphone socket has too many pins to fit in any of the sockets on the sound card. I've tried soundblasters site but they only list FAQ for the audigy 2. which I dont have.

so any help, or even a diagram, would be brilliant.

thanks

Ruu_Old · 24-04-2006 1:42am

Normally the jack on the soundcard is green for speakers or headphones. I think so anyway.

Snowbat · 24-04-2006 2:38am

The cabling supplied with case-mounted headphone/mic sockets is for motherboards with onboard audio where an audio header is provided on the motherboard. I don't know of any PCI sound cards with a suitable connector.

*IF* your card has a white 10 pin connector (present in some Creative OEM cards), analogue audio I/O is available there but it's a non-standard connector.

See thread here:
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/multimedia-73/audigy-2-zs-front-of-case-audio-mic-connectors-15584-5.html

Otherwise your only option is to extend the wires outside the case, fit 3.5mm jacks and connect to the sockets on the card bracket.

irlrobins · 24-04-2006 8:57am

If you want to plug a normal headphone in, connect to the green output on the audigy card as Ruu said.

easy_as_easy · 24-04-2006 3:31pm

thanks guys must check it out, I'm pretty sure its black, the socket, not white, yup it is. I've tried connecting the headphones onto the mobo but still nothing, I'm guessing the onboard sound is disabled once I installed the Audigy. I wondering if I cant just use the Digital/Analouge out as my headphones?

I'll check out that forum, thanks!

irlrobins · 24-04-2006 3:34pm

Your card outputs look like this?

easy_as_easy · 24-04-2006 3:43pm

mmmm that thread seems very complicated. a bit over my head, Im really pissed that audigy made it so hard to do something so simple! they should have provided the right cables/pins/sockets to replace the standard ones which dont fit their poxy sonudcard. might just give up and wait to get a front mounted sound card. sigh.

easy_as_easy · 24-04-2006 3:47pm

irlrobins wrote:

Your card outputs look like this?

no Ive just got the audigy, not audigy 2. it has gold output/input sockets.

weird looking socket for camcorders / digital&analouge output / Line Out / Mircophone / Line In / Rear out for 5.1

edit:

come to think of it, the board itself is pretty similar, with all the pins that is.

irlrobins · 24-04-2006 3:47pm

I'm a bit confused too. Are you trying to find out how to plug your headphones into your sound card? Or are you trying to connect a front of case headphone socket to the sound card?

irlrobins · 24-04-2006 3:49pm

so it looks like this?

easy_as_easy · 24-04-2006 3:52pm

irlrobins wrote:

I'm a bit confused too. Are you trying to find out how to plug your headphones into your sound card? Or are you trying to connect a front of case headphone socket to the sound card?

trying to connect the front case headphones to the soundcard. yes.

and yes that close up diagram is what it looks like

cwhere to connect the headphones on a soundblaster audigy card

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