Can I use my two monitor's speakers as a stereo system?

I have two monitors right beside each other which have built in speakers through HDMI. I was just wondering if there was a way to use both of the monitor’s speakers at once, with left channel audio for the monitor on the left and right channel audio for the monitor on the right.

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Maybe you could do something like that with Helvum? I don’t know. I’ve never tried.

Are the quality of the monitor speakers good enough? Because you can get a decent 2.1 system for probably $35. Also a lot of people these days choose to use a small class D amp with small speakers for the desktop.

LOL. I just found my 2.1 Labtec system on Ebay but the guy wants too much for shipping. But they do sound good for what they are. Best of luck…

good idea.

I think, in general, it could be done with a virtual sink that routes FL to FL input of the left monitor and FR to FR input of the right monitor.

They are quite good. I normally use headphones but I was just wondering if I can make the most out of the setup I’ve got.

I don’t have a lot of time right now to really get involved into configuring things but just from playing with it for a while I can’t find a way to make it do what I want. It won’t display both of my monitors at the same time, although I could make it play through my DAC/AMP and one of my monitors speakers at the same time, but I could not control volume.

As I said, it’s not something I’ve attempted. I just thought that tool might be able to do that sort of thing. I could be wrong. Sorry if I wasted your time.

it’s quite easy to do with Helvum
default sink is the HDMI device and I added FL output to the FL input of the headphone and removed route FL to FL HDMI

Just use the mouse, drag from from output_FL to playback_FL, to remove drag again.
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