Swithing between Speakers and Headset

I have a computer with a ZxR installed and have set it up to work with a Tactic3d headset. What is the quickest and easiest way to switch between the headset and a pair of external speakers? How should I attach the speakers and what Windows 8.1 driver and SoundBlaster driver settings should I use?

Plug your speakers into the soundcard as usual.
use the front mounted headphone socket on the fromt of the X-Fi I/O unit to connect your headset and set the control panel to automatically mute your speakers when the headset is connected. Your speakers will mute when the headset is plugged in and all you have to do is plug or unplug the headset at the front to switch modes!...Now please do not ask about doing the same with your mike connector!! see other thread by me!! p.s creative do ship a /4" to 3.5mmm adapter with the card.
Hope I have understood your post
AndyMessage Edited by slef2003 on 0-4-2006 03:54 AM

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Switch between speakers and headset on X-

I've got X-Fi Fatalty FPS edition and desperately need to find a way to switch between headset and speakers. Especially since I use teamspeak a lot in games and don't want my speakers to echo while I'm talking.
There is an option to mute speakers when the headphone jack is connected, but that requires me to reconnect the headphone plug each time I want to use them.
There must be a switch to turn only the speakers off manually as well?
With Soundblaster Li've! Digital, this problem was easily solved by switching between digital mode on and off, as my speakers were connected digitally and my headset on analog.
But with X-Fi, there's no way to turn off the digital speakers alone.
Please help.

Plug your speakers into the soundcard as usual.
use the front mounted headphone socket on the fromt of the X-Fi I/O unit to connect your headset and set the control panel to automatically mute your speakers when the headset is connected. Your speakers will mute when the headset is plugged in and all you have to do is plug or unplug the headset at the front to switch modes!...Now please do not ask about doing the same with your mike connector!! see other thread by me!! p.s creative do ship a /4" to 3.5mmm adapter with the card.
Hope I have understood your post
AndyMessage Edited by slef2003 on 0-4-2006 03:54 AM

Hp pavilion g7; speakers and headsets playing at the same time suddenly.

When i woke up this morning, I found out that my speakers and headsets are both playing at the same time. It did not do this before and I've been really stumped in finding a fix. I have gone through most the the related threads about this online but none of the fixes have worked for me not even system restore.

Hi percepter,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I understand that you have developed a problem with your speakers and your headphones for your HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC. I will try my best to help you with this.
I suggest following the steps in this document for Troubleshooting Sound Problems with External Speakers and Headsets in Windows 7 for preforming a Windows sound test, to see what is causing this issue.
I hope this helps, please let me know how it goes.
Thank you and have a great day!
I worked on behalf of HP.

X-fi for notebook won't switch between speakers and headphones

I have a Dell Studio 537 with the x-fi for notebook card. When inserted, I can hear songs through the headphones and the console correctly says 'headphones'. When I remove the headphone jack, the console switches to 'speakers' but I can't hear anything from the speakers. I can plug in headphones, it still says 'speakers' but I can hear the music.
The reverse is true. I can start out with music playing on the speakers and never be able to convert it to headphones without removing the card, closing everything, reinserting. It's a pain.
Is there anything I can do to fix this so I can leave the card in most of the time?
Thanks in advance?

Plug your speakers into the soundcard as usual.
use the front mounted headphone socket on the fromt of the X-Fi I/O unit to connect your headset and set the control panel to automatically mute your speakers when the headset is connected. Your speakers will mute when the headset is plugged in and all you have to do is plug or unplug the headset at the front to switch modes!...Now please do not ask about doing the same with your mike connector!! see other thread by me!! p.s creative do ship a /4" to 3.5mmm adapter with the card.
Hope I have understood your post
AndyMessage Edited by slef2003 on 0-4-2006 03:54 AM

Connecting speakers and headset together on Qosmio G30

My question is, if it is possible to use two different audio out on Qosmio G30. It has two connectors, but seems to be connected together. I want to use my Qosmio with virtual DJ, one audio channel for speakers and one for preparing music (for headset). I want to have one music on speakers and one on headset for better mixing.
Is this possible, or must I buy one more external audio card? Is this inside audio card two channels or not?
Thanks

Hello
I have made follow test: Qosmio G30 connected to LCD TV. One headphone port connected to TV and second one to my headphones. On both sides I have had sound (the same music). After changing ports the sound was still there.
I can say follow: You can hear just the same music on both ports at the same time but if you want to use two different things I think you must buy some external solution.

Sound from both speakers and headset! How to fix?

Hi I've had this problem since buying my laptop early last year; whenever I skype call, all other sounds except for my call itself comes out through the speaker. Due to my mic being internal I am then forced to play games without sound and am unable to watch videos/ movies whilst skyping. I have googled this, and it appeared people has had identical issues in the past. However, the remedy for this issue does not work for me. I go into: Tools -> Options -> Audio Settings; but there is not option for Headphones/ Speaker. It only has speakers and headphones separately for me. Please help me as I have been unable to play games with sound/ watch videos for the past year while in skype (Which is extremely frequent). Thanks

You can try this:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-audio-splits-to-both-headphones-and-speak...

Speakers and headset

Hi,
I have a HP Pavilion 20 all in one computer. I need to know how to configure the system to have both the speakers and headphones on at the same time when playing music. can some help me out?
Thanks
Terry
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Hello Terry
What is the exact model of your HP Pavilion 20? If you are unsure you can use the article: How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
Also what operating system are you using and how are your speakers and headphones connected? What program are you playing the music from?
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Computer speakers and headset

My desktop gets sound only from the speakers I have, and when i try to plug headphones into the desktop, no sound is heard, only in the speakers, now if I buy a headset, which as microphone and earphone ability, now if I plug it into either my speaker or desktop, I'll probably only be able to hear or talk, is that true? I don't want to spend money and have to return it.

Hmmmmmmmmmm
Is this a RealTek sound card built into the computer ?
Its my experience that you can only utilize one jack , front or back panel jacks at a time.......
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i have installed windows 8 in my pc it keep telling me no speakers,headseat pulgged and there is red cross mark in my speaker icon pleaSE MY SN NUMBER IS [edited by Moderator]

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Connecting 2.0 speakers and heads

Hi there
Im having the connection blues with my newly aquired Audigy 2 ZS.
I want to have both my 2.0 speakers and headset (Headphones and mic) connected at the same time. What I WOULD prefer was to be able to connect the front speak/mic connections from the pc case to the soundboard, but that seems not to be possible at all.
Please correct me if Im wrong though
The alternati've is to connect the speakers to line out , the headphones to line out 2 and the mic to the mic in connector. But how do I then configure the software to put out the signal on both connectors?
Please help me, Im having the connection blues...
Cheers. Peter

pedefup wrote:
Hi
Reading up on other posts on the same topic somewhat yielded that answer as well...
I cant say much else that Im really disapointed.
Most motherboards with onboard sound having the ability to do this out of the box, yet a very expensi've, apparently defacto standard, stand alone soundcard dont support this VERY basic feature?
Im in the market for something else then, sad sad product this is...
Cheers. Peter.
The standard basic feature is to use audio output device with the sound card. So what's wrong with that? Even with onboard sound, they have only output jack for device at the rear. If you are referring to the pc case front jack, you could always get the platinum version of the sound card to do the same too. Anyway, using splitter is the best and most easy way in my opinion too. Alternati'vely, you can set the speaker to 4/4. in setting. Connect the headphone to the lineout 2 on the card, go to eax console and enable stereo surround cmss.

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Chocobo87 wrote:
I am having trouble running both my speakers and Fatal1ty HS-1000 USB headset at the same time. Sometimes I like to take off my Fatal1ty HS-1000 USB headset and listen to my music really loud with my 5.1 system, but now I would have to unplug the Fatal1ty HS-1000 USB headset from the back.
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I got a Zx at the beginning of the year as a gift and really liking it so far. Finally got around to hooking up speakers to it and they sound good, but I wasn't getting any output from them at first. Then I realized you have to switch in the SB control panel between them and the headphones; also downloaded the SBZ Switcher which definitely helps with quick switches.
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Yes, that's right. And I want to switch simply between speakers and headphones. Only one with sound, the other mute. At the moment, when I plug in my headphones, the speakers becomes mute. That's ok, but . I always want to let my headphones connected and 2.1 when I switch sound to the speakers, the sound also comes out of the headphones. It's not possbile to mute the headphones only. There must be a way.

MacBook Pro won't automatically switch between internal speakers and display audio

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Please let me know if you have a solution for this.
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I'm pretty sure that the blame for this lies entirely with Microsoft and their stupid hardware-detecting W7 OS. Yes, it actually detects when you unplug the headphones, tells you what you just did, and promptly resets all sorts of things. The most sensible thing you can do (apart from reverting to XP, which doesn't do this) is to plug an external stereo jack to stereo jack socket extension lead, and plug either your headphones or speakers into that instead, whilst leaving the plug end permanently in the laptop. Microsoft can't pull that stupid stunt on an external connector, so you should be okay with that.

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