Question Setting Up Yamaha HS5 Monitors for Stereo Sound with MSI Realtek Console ?

[doctorjohnsmith]

I just bought two Yamaha HS5 studio monitors. The problem is that I only have one port for the front speakers. So I thought I would use the second one as a rear speaker.

The problem is that I have the Realtek console from MSI... It's impossible to separate my front and rear speakers and therefore to do stereo with one as left and the other as right...

Any alternatives?

 

[dwd999]

I just bought two Yamaha HS5 studio monitors. The problem is that I only have one port for the front speakers. So I thought I would use the second one as a rear speaker.

The problem is that I have the Realtek console from MSI... It's impossible to separate my front and rear speakers and therefore to do stereo with one as left and the other as right...

Any alternatives?

Do you mean that you have only 1 output jack labelled front on your computer's motherboard. That's a stereo TRS jack so you would normally use a splitter to separate the left and right channels and then connect the speakers to that. Something like this would be a start:

https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Speak...efix=stereo+jack+splitter,aps,152&sr=8-3&th=1

Then you would need cables with a 3.5mm plug at one end and a 1/4 inch plug at the other to connect those speakers. Or some similar type of adapters.

 

[dwd999]

I just bought two Yamaha HS5 studio monitors. The problem is that I only have one port for the front speakers. So I thought I would use the second one as a rear speaker.

The problem is that I have the Realtek console from MSI... It's impossible to separate my front and rear speakers and therefore to do stereo with one as left and the other as right...

Any alternatives?

It later occurred to me that a combined splitter and cable something like this might be easier:

https://www.amazon.com/Splitter-Sma...654&sprefix=cable+stereo+,aps,135&sr=8-4&th=1