Re: Dell 5650 5.1 speaker system. Ok with SB Live?

Sounds like you should be fine. I thought my old speakers weren't too bad
till I plugged the new ones in; then I wondered how I lived with the old
ones for so long. :) Very happy with the purchase, although I'm not an
audio-phile, so I can't really comment on their music rendering
capabilities.

Clint

"Ron" <Harvested@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for the response. I'm ashamed to say I mis-described the card.
It is a SB Live! 5.1. The jacks I called "L & R" are really front and
back, and there is a third for the center channel or digital out. I've
never used this third jack. (For the record, the reason I have 4.1
speakers with a 5.1 card is that there was a lot of confusion about which
flavor of SB card Dell was including at the time I bought my system, and
when I complained that their (OEM) card didn't match specs on the Creative
site, they "allowed" me to replace it with the full retail flavor at a
"discount." This was 3 years ago or more. There was a small fuss about
it on the Dell forums, IIRC. I can't find that OEM card at the moment,
but it was probably not 5.1.)

I'm not that much into gaming or movies on the pc, but I do music - I have
a second, higher quality sound card, with which I record and drive my
mixing monitors. In addition to normal computer usage, I use the desktop
sound for noodling, early editing. etc., so I don't have to flip on the
other hardware.

You'd think with music as a hobby, I'd know more about these interface
protocols. Doh. Anyway, looks like the 5650 speakers will be fine.
Sorry to have posted mis-leading info, and again, thanks for the input.
Hopefully, others will benefit from the thread.

-Ron



I'd guess you'd be better off getting a 5.1 or 7.1 sound card, especially
if you want to play games in their full aural glory.




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