Connecting 5.1 system to laptop

machine101

machine101

machine101

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Hello,

I have a 5.1 system that I used to use with my PC, connecting via 3x3.5mm. I would like to use it with a laptop, but it has only 1x3.5mm jack.

One option I've seen is connecting an external sound card, this is too expensive for me and I don't have desk space for it.

What I'd like to do instead is use an extender of 3.5mm and connect that to a 3.5mm 2-way splitter, then one output from that to another 3.5mm 2-way splitter. So in effect it would be an extender to a "fake" 3x3.5mm splitter. I know I would lose 5.1 capability doing that, but I want it primarily for listening to music so I don't really care.

The question is: would this work and would it cause significant sound distortion, for example on the subwoofer?
 
1) if your avr supports usb audio
2) get cheap usb to optical dongle and then use upmixing
3) get good usb to optical dongle that passes DD/DD

Don't do that 3.5mm bodge job splitting rofl
 
I don't have an AVR and speakers have no optical audio. Their only input is 3x3.5mm. Yes I know it's a bit ghetto, but it's better than using laptop speakers.
 
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