Looking to remap surround sound output from PC

[silverbot01]

Hi, I'm new to the forums here and I'd like to start off by asking for some help because I've been looking and looking and can't find an answer.

I'm looking for a piece of Software or a setting hidden in Windows perhaps that would allow me to remap a surround sound output. My room has a TV and home theater system on one end and on the opposite is a computer desk with my PC setup which I use for games and music and other important work. I usually use the cheap logitech 2.1 speakers when my friend is over or I just feel like taking my headset off. What I would like to do is use the 5.1 setup behind me and remap the surround left to front right, surround right to front left, front left to surround right, front right to surround left, maybe change voice/center to a slightly offset mix between surround left/right (the speakers ill be using for front left/right) and map the center speaker itself to just act as a mix between the speakers behind me.

Want to go from:_SR____SL_____to:_FL____FR___the v and ^ being me, showing how
___________________V_______________^______I want it to be mapped when I'm sitting facing the PC
_______________FR__C__FL________SL_"C"_SR__instead of the TV (TV being at the bottom, PC top)

My equipment is as follows:

>Windows 10 PC with Geforce GTX 970 (using this graphics card's HDMI out for a long HDMI cable running across the room tucked away under a bed plugging into the back of the Samsung receiver/blu ray player)

>Samsung Bluray Player/HTS combo player. Can't remember the model number exactly but it does a pretty good job, it's "smart" and has an app store and wifi built in. It's HDMI out going to my TV is sending back audio to the receiver so any digital audio information going back can play in surround sound. The HDMI in that's taking in my PC's video/audio is passing through the video to my TV. I'm focused on the sound coming from that HDMI in.

(im not sure if the HDMI cable is sending the audio in a compressed form like Dolby or PCM which is why I directly connected it to the receiver using its only HDMI in since the TV only sends back compressed data or stereo pcm via the return channels back to the receiver.)

Thank you,
Silverbot

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

I doubt there is an easy way to do this. The only thing I can come up with is to rig up a binding post patch panel like this. The back side would have speaker wires going to amplifiers. You’d need to bring all the wires from the individual speakers to this location, and swap them around as needed.

http://vadcon.com/pp/speaker-binding-solder.html

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[XEagleDriver]

Silverbot,

What AVR do you have?

There may be a way to trick the AVR into mapping the FL-----FR signal to your SL-----SR speakers (it might be 180 degrees out, since you are facing the other way) providing a complete stereo signal to you while at your PC desk. All other speakers (original FL/FR/C) would be silent.
I have this option on a Yamaha 7.1 capable AVR in combination with a set-up of using a "fake bi-amp", all-channel stereo mode, and A/B speaker switch toggled to neither on the AVR.
I know it sounds weird, I discovered this ability by accident, where the fake-bi-amp was set for a different purpose.

Cheers,
XEagleDriver

 

[silverbot01]

My AVR is a Samsung BluRay player with AVR capabilities. 5.1 speaker setup attached to it using regular speaker wire (could change them out assuming i retain similar impedence). I think it was called the FM53? the model, i dont remember. I thought maybe there would be a way to do the trick on the computer before the the audio is sent to the receiver.

As far as tricks in the receiver, I've looked quite a bit. There IS a crazy matrix mode where all the speakers play in stereo (good for music). Also got some pro logic modes for stereo content, which even works quite well with my n64. I GUESS I could try reversing the stereo and using matrix mode but i was hoping for something more like surround sound.