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Old 03-07-2007, 10:52 PM   #31
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I think it sucks, it's killing my ears and I think I'm actually getting deafer in my right ear every day. The sound coming from the speakers has zero bass and so much treble it's killing me. I don't notice it too much since the subwoofer provides all the bass but after a year of it, I can notice it's still doing something behind the scenes. But saying that, I've had lots of passengers in the car and nobody else has noticed it so maybe I'm just picky. But I can guarantee you it's not as good as a regular CD player unless you find some way to preamp it.
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:14 PM   #32
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I have a headphone amp pre-amping my current setup right now.
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Old 03-15-2007, 03:13 PM   #33
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I am only getting audio out of the right channel and not the left channel. I have the shunt jumper the middle pins. Is there supposed to be another shunt on there somewhere. The manual says that there are 2, while I only have one. Also when I connected my sub amp to the mic jack after configuring everything it is still putting music out of my 10" sub, when I just bass only. Any ideas?
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Old 03-21-2007, 02:38 PM   #34
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I did, I left the center channel empty because I don't have one. But if you have an amplifier with the plugin for this channel, I did up the instructions so you can simply plug it in and voila. Good eye!

like i said, not nit picking, just making sure you saw that, the instructions were great and well illustrated.

i have a question on the software end, and that is, do you know of a program or utility at this point that would offer the equivalent of a virtual joy stick for the speakers, to give the same individual control channel to channel that a regular head unit would have? something like the equivalent to fade and balance for a regular head unit, except the added advantage that they are all separate audio channels.

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Old 04-23-2007, 02:24 PM   #35
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I really would like to get this working and I tried a year ago or so. Has anyone with an M10K mobo, gotten this to work? I wonder if it's not possible?
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Yeah, I got mine to work. I just had to change a few jumper settings and plug up the Amps and it worked like a charm, well at least until the M-10000 sound card quit working on me.
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Damn, that sucks. Do you remember what jumpers you had to change to get it to work. I would really appreciate it. Also any other info on what I need to do to get it to work.
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Old 04-24-2007, 03:28 AM   #38
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I have a headphone amp pre-amping my current setup right now.

Can you outline what exactly you're using and how it works? I think it might be helpful.Thanks.
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Old 04-24-2007, 03:33 AM   #39
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I am only getting audio out of the right channel and not the left channel. I have the shunt jumper the middle pins. Is there supposed to be another shunt on there somewhere. The manual says that there are 2, while I only have one. Also when I connected my sub amp to the mic jack after configuring everything it is still putting music out of my 10" sub, when I just bass only. Any ideas?

Which jumpers are you talking about? I didn't change any of the jumper settings, it should work out of the box with the instructions I provided.
You may have the center channel feeding into the amp for the subwoofer which would provide sound from your sub, but most likely that's not your problem. I also got sound from my sub but I went into the software and disabled the center channel which helped a little and then I turned a few settings on the amp to change the cutoff for the sound going to it. Now it's about 98% bass.
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like i said, not nit picking, just making sure you saw that, the instructions were great and well illustrated.

i have a question on the software end, and that is, do you know of a program or utility at this point that would offer the equivalent of a virtual joy stick for the speakers, to give the same individual control channel to channel that a regular head unit would have? something like the equivalent to fade and balance for a regular head unit, except the added advantage that they are all separate audio channels.

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Ya, balance and fade, I know what you mean. This would be pretty good but I don't know of anything that would give it to you short of an actual equalizer. You could probably get an electronic single DIN equalizer you can plug the RCA into and then run them out to the amp. You'd lose some signal in RCA cables that long though if you put the equalizer in the dash.
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Question music via magic5.1 setup (without center channel)

Great writeup. I pretty much did what you said but on my own since i just found this post. Took me hours and hours. The only thing I did not realize is that you only use one side of the output for the sub. That explains some stuff. Via Centrafuse Front end and even if I faded the sub out if stilll played loud. My sub amp is bridged to a single woofer so even if I cut the sub it was still playing from the center channel input. Your info is great!

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What is the downside to playing music via this magic 5.1 setup. Do the front and rear channels still get full frequency range or is is some kind of emulated surround sound? Hope this question makes some sense! I dont watch DVD's in the car very often...

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I've only done this on an SP13000 and I'm now trying it on a EN15000. Both the SP and EN have the same type of screens. Now, the only difference that I see from the instructions and the actual screen on these motherboards is the below:



There is no Front Speaker option on this step and no 5.1, it only has the Master Volume with no 5.1 option.

Even so, I managed to get my SP13000 working after hours of playing around with it. What I found is this:

The amp that I was using is a 2/4 channel amp with a selector switch. When the switch was set to 4 channel, only two speakers would work. When set the switch to 2 channel, all the speakers would work.

Now, I'm working on my friend's setup that the amp is a 2/3/4 channel. This amp does not have a selector switch and I'm having the issue that sound is only coming out of two speakers. How will I set the amp for 2 channel to see if that works? Would I have to use only two RCA outputs from the amp and use a Y adapter?
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Ok, I just spoke with my friend who own a stereo shop and I now understand what could be happening. My previous install had an amp that had a selector switch with 2/4 channel. All speakers worked at the 2 channel option but only two speakers worked with the 4 channel option. This means that the rear speaker output on the computer was not function. All speakers worked with the 2 channel option becasue the amp would just use the one imput and split it to all 4 speakers.

Now, with my current amp the same thing is happening and in order to achieve the output to 4 speakers I will have to split the output from the computer into 4 channels in order for it to work.

Now, I wonder if this is what is going with the other setups that are not working until you switch settings on the amps. You might think that all ouputs on the computer are working but in reality only one output is working and the amp is splitting that one output into the 4 speakers. Hmmm.
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Ok, I just tested another mb and it worked fine. This was with an MII motherboard. Can the driver provided on the first post work with all other motherboards?
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Great writeup. I pretty much did what you said but on my own since i just found this post. Took me hours and hours. The only thing I did not realize is that you only use one side of the output for the sub. That explains some stuff. Via Centrafuse Front end and even if I faded the sub out if stilll played loud. My sub amp is bridged to a single woofer so even if I cut the sub it was still playing from the center channel input. Your info is great!

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What is the downside to playing music via this magic 5.1 setup. Do the front and rear channels still get full frequency range or is is some kind of emulated surround sound? Hope this question makes some sense! I dont watch DVD's in the car very often...

thanks John

Thanks! I don't think there is a downside at all, however 99% of the time there will be software conversion done to bring media from 2 channels to 4, or 4 channels to 2. All music that I know if is recorded in 2 channel so no matter what kind of system you have, it's still 2 channels. Most systems will use software to convert it into 5 channels or more but it's still only recorded in 2 channels. Or vice versa, if you manage to find media like a DVD that's recorded in 5 channels, play it on the computer and get the drivers working properly to output all 5 channels, run all separate wires, into a 5 channel amp and then out to the corresponding speakers, only then you'll have all 5 true channels. Otherwise it's going to get converted somewhere to 2 channel. So basically what I'm saying is that it's 2 channel anyway so don't worry about it. Just get a 4 channel amp that'll split the sound up for you.
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