Question Computer Audio Setup Question

[septune]

I have a pair of speakers + a center channel speaker for my computer. Neither are powered and so both have amplifiers, which are then connected to the PC. My question is, the center channel doesn't work when plugged into the center channel port (orange port). It does work when plugged into the green port, but that's the one the speakers are plugged into. I'm ordering an auxiliary splitter cable so that both amplifiers can plug into the green port that I haven't received yet, but my question is, why wouldn't the center channel work when plugged into the orange port on the motherboard? Is there something I'm missing?

Stereo Speakers: https://www.miccatron.com/micca-rb42-reference-bookshelf-speakers/
Center Speaker: https://www.miccatron.com/micca-rb42-c-center-channel-speaker/
Motherboard: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z790 Steel Legend WiFi/index.asp

 

[Lutfij]

If you want to use the center speaker, you will need to set your audio in the console/audio control panel to either 5.1 or 7.1, so you can get the center channel to work.

What sort of an amplifier are the speakers hooked up to?

 

[dwd999]

What type of audio content are you playing back? If the audio content does not include center channel content then there is nothing for the computer to send to the center channel. If you're just playing standard 2 channel stereo audio then there's no material for the center channel to play.

 

[septune]

What type of audio content are you playing back? If the audio content does not include center channel content then there is nothing for the computer to send to the center channel. If you're just playing standard 2 channel stereo audio then there's no material for the center channel to play.

Tried everything, music, games, shows and it wasn't outputting any sound.

 

[dwd999]

Tried everything, music, games, shows and it wasn't outputting any sound.

More thoughts: the Orange jack includes both the Center channel and the Subwoofer channel. Perhaps the plug that you're inserting into that jack is carrying the subwoofer signal (which may not carry any sound info) and not the Center channel. And again you need to be sure that the Center channel sound info actually exists. For music and shows you could use a program like MediaInfo to check the properties of the files you're playing to verify that there is center channel sound info. And you would have to also verify that whatever app you're using to play the music or shows, etc. is set to output a center channel, e.g. contains a Dolby or DTS or other surround sound decoder. For games you would have to verify that the game's settings are set to include center channel output.

As Lutfij notes above you have to make sure that the Windows Sound app is set to output multiple channels. You should be using the Test function built into the Sound app to check and hear which channels are definitely outputting sound.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo