I recently bought a new case for my machine which had front access sockets for headphones and line-in audio. Unfortunately the connector on the inside isn't compatible with my Live! soundcard, being a standard six-pin header designed to be attached to on-board soundcards on modern motherboards. So I started looking at possible solutions to get a useable headphone socket on my system.

I decided it's probably time to upgrade to an Audigy 2 card anyway, but that has pretty much the same internal connectors on the card as the old Live! ones, as they are designed only for use with the breakout box that comes with the Platinum versions. Now, I wasn't willing to spend an extra £130 on the Platinum Audigy 2 just to get a headphone socket.

My speakers are the old Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater surround speakers, which have their own external amplifier, but unfortunately no headphone socket. The idea of buying new speakers to get the socket also isn't viable.

Does anyone know of a company who manufacture a speaker/headphone switcher box in the UK? This would allow me to plug the box into the soundcard output at the rear of the computer, and then be able to switch between sending that output to the speakers connected to one output on the box or the headphones connected to the other output. This would be the ideal solution, but I'm finding it impossible to locate such a seemingly simple thing.

Anyone?