audio channel

shaharazu · June 3, 2016

hi linus and hi all , my name is shahar and this is my 1st post in the forum so i want to say a really big thanks for linus to make such a pro tech YouTube Chanel and a forum. ty man

now for the question, welll im interesting of understanding a litel bit of Audio tech so i will love if you (linus) will make some videos abut audio.

i am a pc Technic and the only think that i know abut audio tech its like to plug the green headset cable to the green soket on the motherboard and the red mic cable to the red soket thats it so whan im cheking out the MSI " Z170A-GAMING-M5 " and i see "8-channel audio " im keep asking myself for what we need 8 chaneels so pls if you can help me i will be so happy.

sory abut my bad english.

ALwin · June 3, 2016

Read these articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.1_surround_sound

LAwLz · June 3, 2016

More channels = more speakers = better surround.

Each channel can go to a separate speaker, which is controlled individually. If you got 8 audio channels then you got 8 individual audio streams which can play different sounds.

Here is a picture of 7.1 audio (7 speakers and 1 subwoofer.

This kind of setup is not possible if you don't have 8 channel audio.

shaharazu · June 3, 2016

thanks for the fast replay.

in my experience usually i run in to lets say 2-4 speaker that connected straight to a receiver and from the receiver there is only one green cable that need to be connected to the Motherboard so i never saw a speaker that connected directly to the motherboard.

so my question now is, if its not bather to connect the speakers to the receiver?

LAwLz · June 3, 2016

If you only use one green cable from the reciever to the computer then you will not get surround sound. The green cable only carries two channels which means that you might have 4 speakers, but they will function as if you had two. Surround is when all speakers plays different sounds (so that you can separate things like in front of you to the right, and behind you on the right).