PC speakers/headphones/soundcard

[goodison1234]

My PC has a new sound system. New speakers, new soundcard, new headphones - all by the same brand (Philips). They all work great, however, swtiching between the two can be extremely awkward due to the positioning of the computer and the soundcard being at the back of it.

The soundcard has many different sockets for vaious things to be plugged in (S/PDIF, output, input and amongst other things) but both the headphones and the speaker wire go in the same place.

What, specifically, do I need in order to have them both plugged into my system at the same time? Is there some sort of splitter which will work? Searching the net comes up with mainly iPod / handheld device splitters. Will this work with my PC?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Alex.

[Ethel]

Here is an example of what you want. I'm sure there are cheaper / dearer versions

http://www.maplin.co.uk/searchpages/COMPUTER_HEADPHONE_S PEAKER_SWITCH.htm

[goodison1234]

Thanks for you quick reply...

Do you think:

http://www.astarsolutions.co.uk/products/?pc=1175&c=d&sc=117

will do the job? There's a Maplin not far away so I will probably end up there anyway but this is a tenner cheaper and maybe a bit smaller.

Thanks again.

[goodison1234]

And i'm refering to the item at the top of the page on that link.

I was just thinking, why are they all so big? They're all giant boxes. I was expecting a device the size of a match box?