Question Is there a way to enable surround sound for the front jack?

[user123123]

I currently have a pc with the erica 6 motherboard, i think the ports on the back have surround sound but is there a way to give the front jacks surround sound? the front jack is a jumbo jack (audio+mic), or should I just use an external sound card with usb and a splitter?

(there is no "configure" option for the combo jack, while there are for the external speakers and the monitor in the control panel -> sound)

edit: think what I meant was spatial sound, the combo jack in my phone can give spatial sound but my pc cant, is there a way to fix this?

 

[hotaru.hino]

No. Front panel audio has no provisions for surround sound.

If anyone is curious as to why, here's the pinout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_High_Definition_Audio#Front_panel_connector

 

[boju]

Jumbo jack would be 3 rings, stereo L&R and mic. Surround in such a sense provisioning each channel would be quite long, like 10 rings long for 5.1ch. Can imagine how long such a thing would be.

Anyways, each individual speaker for surround needs to be identified and treated as such. Depending on your speaker input configuration, if it requires analogue audio jacks, then a sound card would suit.

Analogue surround is easier to work with since there's no compression or decoders necessary, each channel plays as is once configured in Windows.

 

[user123123]

oh wait.. i think what I meant was spatial sound, the combo jack in my phone can give spatial sound but mine cant, is there a way to fix this?

 

[sizzling]

oh wait.. i think what I meant was spatial sound, the combo jack in my phone can give spatial sound but mine cant, is there a way to fix this?

Virtual/Spatial surround sound does not need any special hardware, it just uses stereo. The virtualisation is all software.

 

[hotaru.hino]

oh wait.. i think what I meant was spatial sound, the combo jack in my phone can give spatial sound but mine cant, is there a way to fix this?

Windows has something built in if you go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Right click on the output device and select Properties -> Spatial Sound tab

 

[user123123]

Windows has something built in if you go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Right click on the output device and select Properties -> Spatial Sound tab

the thing is when i switch from "off" to "windows sonic for headphones" (this is the direct translation of it) it switches back to "off" immediately

 

[user123123]

OOOH DAMN turns out I had mono sound on at ease of access -> audio - > mono sound, didn't notice that It was one channel for all the time!

 

[user123123]

I've missed out on way too much