Buying/making a center channel only

[Loopy]

I have a Logitech 4.1 speaker set hooked up to a Soundblaster X-fi soundcard I was wondering, can you buy a center channel speaker?

I have a speaker that connects via normal speaker wire is there any kind of box I could buy to hook it up to then connect it to the jack on the back of my sound card?

[confus-ed]

I need pictures for this one, lol

So I can see at least three outs here & you have 4.1 speakers, which means we used up two of them up (front & rear), so we have one left, which I'm sure if you go somewhere like maplin & ask (they have a chat service for the web also) they'll tell you what bits you need, as I think you'll need to get terminators for your 'normal speaker wire' & then a 3.5 mm stereo jack converter that'll accomodate them, but should be 'do-able' relatively cheap .. & I suppose you could plug any old set of speakers, with an existing 3.5mm jack in if you so fancied , but just what you'd get in terms of 'x.x' I'm not sure..

[Loopy]

what do you mean by what i'd gt in terms of x.x?

is there a u.s store i could get the parts from?

[Platypus]

I have a speaker that connects via normal speaker wire is there any kind of box I could buy to hook it up to then connect it to the jack on the back of my sound card?

Presumably by normal speaker wire, you mean an unshielded figure-8 wire with bare ends to connect to an amplifier? Radio Shack used to have a little amp that you could use one channel of, but I have no idea whether this is still a stock item. Overall these days I think it would be more economic and practical to use one of a pair of powered stereo computer speakers to do the job.

Depending on the layout of connectors used for 5.1 output (usually shown by diagram in the multimedia properties for the soundcard), you may need an adaptor lead to make the right connection, but then you'd possibly need an extension lead to reach the speaker location anyway.

How successful this would be is hard to say. The card has THX certification, to be assured of the correct results for multi-channel sound, a THX certified speaker set should also be used. This will have the right relative levels, frequency response etc between the speakers so the effects appear in the correct locations. A "ring-in" speaker might produce some odd results.

I think confus-ed's comment about what you'd get in terms of x.x is referring to if you will successfully get 5.1 sound, or just 4.1 with an extra speaker.

[confus-ed]

I think confus-ed's comment about what you'd get in terms of x.x is referring to if you will successfully get 5.1 sound, or just 4.1 with an extra speaker.

That's the one .. if he plugged say some 2.1 speakers to this spare output in addition to his existing 4.1 setup, instead of a single speaker, is that 6.2 ?

[Loopy]

I don't know if the wire's are figure 8 wire, but my Speaker set is a Logitech 4.1 THX certified speaker set, I have an extra Logitech THX speaker I was going to use theres one black and one red wire with bare ends my soundcard has a standard audio jack (as used on portable cd players etc.) I'm still trying to figure out what id need to make this work considering the 5th speaker might need a power source too.