Acer Aspire 6930g

Hi there, I've had a 6930g for just over a month now and absolutly love it, and can't live without it

I want to buy a nice speaker set (5.1) to play my music out of.

There's 3 speaker plug in things in my laptop, what looks like a head phone socket, a line in and a blue one (I have no idea what it is)

I want to buy some Logitech X530 5.1 speakers

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Logitech-X530-51-Speaker-System-71W-RMS-PC-DVD-PS2-XBox-Ready

And I'm wondering whether these will plug into my laptop

On the sticker on the wrist pad it says that it supports "True 5.1 Output"

Thanks

 

The speakers you want to buy have 5.1 analog input, that means 3 cables RCA phono. Your laptop has a single SPDIF (digital) output. Now SPDIF is either 2 channel, DolbyDigital or DTS. To convert the 3xRCA phono to get a digital 5.1 you will need some kind of processor so I don't think you can connect those speakers to your laptop (unless you want to spend some £100 for a converter). Creative and Logitech makes some things to do that job or you can buy more expensive digital 5.1 speakers instead, so you can save money really. Like Z-5500 but you need also a mini jack to S/PDIF cable. I am not an expert though and I don't have personal experience to that matter, so another member might have a better proposition.

 

the SPDIF connection is optical and hides at the back of the headphone jack/socket.
you will need a mini tosslink adaptor.
some of the realtech cards now do 7.1.
i have an old aspire 7110 which is just used for music and is now just a juke box which the family use over the home network to play music or films(a good use for an old laptop).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=toslink+mini+adaptor&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=3596291419&ref=pd_sl_16a3xbvn3_b

if you need any help just post back here.

all the best
Phil