How to connect woofer to laptop

[revanth73]

Hi,

I have old Philips 5.1 speaker system. One Woofer and 5 speakers.Woofer has only Auxillary cable input . See attached screenshot.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B02vvTUJ_6K3ZXpZNnlETzJpeGpTWEhNWUFoUFM3RnVfZUZZ/view?usp=sharing

Is there any adapter/cable to connect woofer/speakers to laptop?
If there is a cable, it works for all 5 speakers or only 2.1 output?

Laptop has HDMI output and 3.5 jack output.

Please help.

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Revanth

 

[markw]

I think something like THIS should do it.

Plug the mini jack into the computer's speaker/headphone and the RCA jacks into one of the two inputs on the speaker box. Not knowing what that box is or what it'ss supposed to do, I'll assume you'll get something out of it. Oh, don't forget to connect the other speakers to it as well.

But, it won't be "real" five channels. For that, you'll need to provide more info and the computer nerds will take over from here.

 

[revanth73]

Thanks for the info. Will buy "Male to 2-Male RCA Adapter" adapter .

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

What Mark said. A 5.1 channel system like that could only be used by a desktop with 5.1 analog outputs. If the only option you have is the headphone jack, then 2.0 is the best you’re going to get. You’ll be using either the TV or AUX inputs. If you don’t get a signal to the sub with those inputs, then that’s probably just the way it is

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt