Author Topic: automatic electric, not software, speaker fill  (Read 664 times)

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Offline Lupin III.Topic starter

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automatic electric, not software, speaker fill
« on: October 13, 2018, 01:14:16 pm »
I have two audio outputs (F and R) on my PC connected to speakers. If there's a signal coming out of R, I'd like F output to go to F speakers and R output to R speakers. If there is no audio coming out of R, I would like the F signal to be routed to the R speakers as well. If there is an R signal it should be out put immidiately. If there is no R signal, it's ok or even preferred if it takes a few seconds to switch F through to R. The circuit should be 5V powered from the same PC.
That was the technical description. Here's the reason why:
I'm usually running stereo speakers connected to the F output for most things. But when listening to music or watching movies (which can have true surround, so I want those extra channels and not always a copy of the front ones) I have a second pair of rear speakers which are connected to the "rear" output jacks on my mainboard. Now there lies the problem. My mainboard has a crappy realtek audio chip. Apparently realtek hasn't managed to make a decent driver in a decade and fix the issues with software speaker fill (as a lot of google results will show you). While playing audio from a surround source is fine, to stereo the speaker fill either does nothing or distorts the output by applying echo and frequency filtering. Btw. speaker fill worked perfectly fine with a VIA audio chip and its drivers I had on my last mainboard.

Any ideas how to achieve this? A double-pole-double-throw switch doesn't count. It's not automatic ;) . I'm not crazy about audio quality. Everything will sound better than what realtek drivers are doing to my audio.
 

Offline bob225

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Re: automatic electric, not software, speaker fill
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2018, 04:57:15 pm »
Its down to either A. cheap speakers or b. not using the correct drivers and running the Realtek software or a combination

fit something like a sound blaster card either pcie or usb what will give you much better control and then disable the onboard

Tbh the surround will be simulated unless you have Dolby or Thx content

9/10 I use headphones any other times I run it through my Pioneer A/V amp and custom Jamo 7.1 setup
 


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