Adding surround sound speakers to a laptop

seandurcan1966 · 2020-03-29 19:31:08

Hi Have been given a set of Panasonic SB-HW480 surround sound speakers. Have a laptop with no speakers worth speaking of. I was hoping to set the speakers up on the laptop. Anyone know of a good, inexpensive way of doing this? Cheers and thanks...

29-03-2020 07:31PM

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seandurcan1966

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Hi

Have been given a set of Panasonic SB-HW480 surround sound speakers. Have a laptop with no speakers worth speaking of. I was hoping to set the speakers up on the laptop.
Anyone know of a good, inexpensive way of doing this?

Cheers and thanks...

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#2 29-03-2020 10:43PM

K.O.Kiki

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Looks like you just need to output via optical-out.

The Creative Soundblaster X-Fi is probably your best bet.

I see there's cheaper USB sound cards (StarTech & TerraTec) but not sure if they're just pass-through.

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