[yem23]

I have just installed soundblaster audigy 2 zs platinum pro on my pc. After resolving all the more seemingly complicated issues, I get to this part where I am attempting to calibrate my speakers. I go through a series of sound checks, and then a screen come up saying 'speaker calibrator has detected that you have miswired your speakers. It is important that you correct this by swapping your speaker cables as shown in the diagram.' The picture shows 2 examples... the wrong way, (black to red) and the right way (black to black, red to red). This would make sense but I have 3 (2 tweeders and a sub) speakers, all pre wired by the manufacturer. Im not exactly given the oppertunity to change the neg and the positive. The tweeders have 2 male outputs, one for the sub, and one for the cpu. all speakers are daisy chained this way. The out put for the cpu is green, and the output for the sub is orange. I considered connecting the sub directly to the cpu, but thats not going to work. it leaves my tweeders w/no power source and since the sub output runs FROM the tweeders TO the sub, You've just daisychained the sub right out of the picture. There are 3 speaker input options on the back of my CPU. only one produces sound...so I figure Thats my only option there...
this may be too much info...I get the feeling that this is a simple issue that should be obvious. What am I not seeing here? Any suggestions would be most appriciated...

 

[ebackhus]

Your speakers are alot like mine. I use the built-in nVidia sound on my board and plug in directly with a phono jack. From there it goes to the right speaker that has the power and volume controls. That leads off to the sub and the left channel speaker. The sub provides power to the system.

You may want to see if you can ignore that because if your sound works, then that's good enough usually.

 

[Raggedtoad]

The speaker calibrator that comes with soundblaster cards bases its results on the input you give it by listening to test noises on your computer. Honestly, if you speakers are hardwired, then there is no way you could have accidentally swapped the wires (black to red/red to black). Since this is the case, you can only assume that the speaker calibrator is wrong. Try running it again and answering the questions differently, even contrary to what you hear. If it still says that the speakers are miswired, just ignore it, since it cannot be correct.