surround headphones have more than a single speaker on each ear.
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Terry Klarich wrote: > Probably one of the external USB sound cards is what you want. Never heard > surround sound from a pair of headphones. Bet that is > an experience. > > Terry > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:19:03 -0700you write: >> >> A few months back I bought some nice speakers for my desktop. The sound >> around type with front, right, and middle speaker, rear left and right, and >> a woofer that sits on the floor. Once I went to hook it up I found out I >> didn't have enough input jacks on my sound card. So I had to buy an >> external sound card, I bought one from Turtle beach which worked out fine. >> The system sound great. So next I decided to by some head phones from >> Turtle Beach called Ear Force X52 that I could use on my notebook. Since I >> was over in the Bay Area, I stopped by Fry's Electronics and saved myself 20 >> bucks plus shipping and handling. Told the guy at fries what I wanted to do >> and he said the ear force X-52 was ideal for my needs and would hook right >> up to my notebook. Well when I got home I discovered that the head phones >> had to different connections that would plug in at the end of the ear phone >> cord, and it's got a round female connector. So one of input jacks had >> your standard input jacks that you'd insert in to your sound card, or in my >> case I hooked it to the ear phone jack in the front of the notebook. But >> Damn it! this only produces stereo. In order to get the surround sound I >> need to hook up the cable , one end being male and round, and the other end >> pig tails out with four jacks. Is there some kind of device out there that >> one end has a USB connection that I could hook these four jacks to and get >> the surround sound? >
