Looking for a sound card

[lb]

My PC is Windows 7 64 bit. I am looking for a sound card to replace my
onboard sound. My issue with the onboard sound is that I have 2 pairs
of speakers and I want them both to run in stereo (2.1) mode with only
2 channels. I have tried 2.1 mode and only 1 pair of speakers is
available. The other modes I have tried are 5.1, 7.1 and quadrophonic.
I can get all 4 speakers to work, but I sometimes get different things
coming out of all 4 of them and I want to have only 2 channels. I have
looked at the following card Creative Labs SB0570L4 Sound Blaster
Audigy SE Sound Card which is supposed to work with Windows 7, but
cannot tell if I will get the desired results from it.

I have available an open PCI and a PCI-E x 1 slot. Anyone have
experience with this card or know of another card that will give me
the results I am looking for. My old sound card, a Monster sound MX
300 used to be able to do this in Windows 98, but I do not think I
will be able to find drivers for it in Windows 7. The 2 sets of
speakers sounded great with this setup.

I do not want to spend a lot of money on this, I no longer game, I
just surf the net and listen to MP3 music.

Thanks

[Bob Masta]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:29:16 -0700 (PDT), lb
<ld...@my-Dejanews.com> wrote:

>My PC is Windows 7 64 bit. I am looking for a sound card to replace my
>onboard sound. My issue with the onboard sound is that I have 2 pairs
>of speakers and I want them both to run in stereo (2.1) mode with only
>2 channels. I have tried 2.1 mode and only 1 pair of speakers is
>available. The other modes I have tried are 5.1, 7.1 and quadrophonic.
>I can get all 4 speakers to work, but I sometimes get different things
>coming out of all 4 of them and I want to have only 2 channels. I have
>looked at the following card Creative Labs SB0570L4 Sound Blaster
>Audigy SE Sound Card which is supposed to work with Windows 7, but
>cannot tell if I will get the desired results from it.

I'm not sure what you are looking for. If you want 2
*independent* stereo pairs, such that you can have
completely different program material playing through each,
then I think you need 2 separate sound cards. This is cheap
and easy using a USB card for the second pair.

Otherwise, if you just want the same stereo program material
to play through 2 sets of speakers, you can feed the onboard
Line Out to a splitter to drive 2 stereo amps, each amp
driving a pair of speakers. That way you'll have
independent volume controls for each pair.

Best regards,


Bob Masta

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