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| System Name | Hotbox |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 110/95/110, PBO +150Mhz, CO -7,-7,-20(x6), |
| Motherboard | ASRock Phantom Gaming B550 ITX/ax |
| Cooling | LOBO + Laing DDC 1T Plus PWM + Corsair XR5 280mm + 2x Arctic P14 |
| Memory | 32GB G.Skill FlareX 3200c14 @3800c15 |
| Video Card(s) | PowerColor Radeon 6900XT Liquid Devil Ultimate, UC@2250MHz max @~200W |
| Storage | 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro |
| Display(s) | Dell U2711 main, AOC 24P2C secondary |
| Case | SSUPD Meshlicious |
| Audio Device(s) | Optoma Nuforce μDAC 3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair SF750 Platinum |
| Mouse | Logitech G603 |
| Keyboard | Keychron K3/Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M w/DSA profile caps |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro |
First off: how much did that speaker setup cost you? And you're running it off your motherboard's integrated audio chip? Oh dear. As noted above, get a receiver capable of handling the type of audio you want. Feeding fancy speakers from a bad audio source means bad audio quality. And while there is competent integrated motherboard audio, there's no such thing as good integrated motherboard audio.
Second: While I guess passing judgment on people's preferred way of listening to thing is kind of OT, why exactly do you need two 2500W subwoofers for a home audio setup? Are you trying to demolish your house, one song at a time? One should really be plenty. That way you might have room to sit directly in front of your monitor too, which judging by your photo is not possible at the moment.
But on a more serious note, as noted above, you are attempting to build a speaker setup that your motherboard's integrated audio isn't capable of handling. It supports 5.1 audio, which means center+front L/R+rear/surround L/R (=5) +1 subwoofer. One, not two. Using two will require you to somehow split the output subwoofer signal, which will make sound quality noticeably worse. The reason why one of your subs is silent is because it's trying to act as a center speaker, which likely means its low-pass filter is filtering out essentially all of the audio signal. As to your questions about the center channel, it's used mainly for dialogue in films, but can have other uses too. Nonetheless, the main goal of a center channel is to have sound emit from as close to the on-screen source as possible, which is especially important for dialogue (as having dialogue come from front stereo speakers can result in "floating" voices that don't seem to emit from whoever is speaking). That's also the reason for center speakers' somewhat unusual driver arrangements, as they are often specifically tuned for the audio range of the human voice. The reason the center channel is on the same audio jack as the sub channel is simply for convenience, as 3.5mm jacks are (normally) 2-channel jacks, and the other channels are already paired, so it makes more sense for the layout of the audio outputs to combine these two than it does to split them out into separate jacks.
You either need to align your desired sound setup with the capabilities of your audio source (which is 5.1), or change to an audio source capable of handling your desired setup (essentially 4.2, though that's just 7.2 with a few channels not connected. Still, you might need a center channel speaker too, as otherwise (depending on how your receiver handles the absence of a center channel) you might lose most dialogue audio from anything mixed in 5.1 or 7.1/2.
Second: While I guess passing judgment on people's preferred way of listening to thing is kind of OT, why exactly do you need two 2500W subwoofers for a home audio setup? Are you trying to demolish your house, one song at a time? One should really be plenty. That way you might have room to sit directly in front of your monitor too, which judging by your photo is not possible at the moment.
But on a more serious note, as noted above, you are attempting to build a speaker setup that your motherboard's integrated audio isn't capable of handling. It supports 5.1 audio, which means center+front L/R+rear/surround L/R (=5) +1 subwoofer. One, not two. Using two will require you to somehow split the output subwoofer signal, which will make sound quality noticeably worse. The reason why one of your subs is silent is because it's trying to act as a center speaker, which likely means its low-pass filter is filtering out essentially all of the audio signal. As to your questions about the center channel, it's used mainly for dialogue in films, but can have other uses too. Nonetheless, the main goal of a center channel is to have sound emit from as close to the on-screen source as possible, which is especially important for dialogue (as having dialogue come from front stereo speakers can result in "floating" voices that don't seem to emit from whoever is speaking). That's also the reason for center speakers' somewhat unusual driver arrangements, as they are often specifically tuned for the audio range of the human voice. The reason the center channel is on the same audio jack as the sub channel is simply for convenience, as 3.5mm jacks are (normally) 2-channel jacks, and the other channels are already paired, so it makes more sense for the layout of the audio outputs to combine these two than it does to split them out into separate jacks.
You either need to align your desired sound setup with the capabilities of your audio source (which is 5.1), or change to an audio source capable of handling your desired setup (essentially 4.2, though that's just 7.2 with a few channels not connected. Still, you might need a center channel speaker too, as otherwise (depending on how your receiver handles the absence of a center channel) you might lose most dialogue audio from anything mixed in 5.1 or 7.1/2.
