Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 P5800 auxiliary input

Hi,
I am interested in purchasing the P5800, I have read that it has a 3.5mm auxiliary input suitable for mp3 players etc.
I will be often using this system with an mp3 player and a single output from my laptop. My question is very simple, if I input sound into the auxiliary input, will it play in all the speakers, or just act as a 2.1 system? Quite simply, I would like my music playing in all the speakers
Many thanks in advance for your help,
S Pearce

S Pearce,
If you're connecting through the aux input, you will only be getting stereo output and that's only through the front speaker not all the speaker. You can check out another speaker system (if it's available within your region) and that's the I-Trigue 5600. This speaker system have a CMSS upmix feature which enable you to have 5. surround effect from stereo devices which fit what you wanted.
Jason

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