Surround sound · no new hardware
You own speakers. They're just sitting in different corners doing nothing together. Wavelinkth turns whatever you've got into a surround array for games and music — and lights the room to match what's happening in them. Software only. No receiver, no matched set, no hardware to build.
What it does
Space
Games hand you a two-channel downmix. Wavelinkth pulls the positioned sounds back out of it — separating a real source from room reverb, and recovering front-versus-behind from the phase relationship the game's own spatial audio left in the mix.
Time
Each chunk of audio is stamped with the exact moment it must leave the speaker. A packet that arrives late gets dropped rather than played late, because a sound in the wrong place is worse than a sound missing.
Light
Gunfire snaps the lights red in 15 ms. Explosions bloom orange and fall away slowly. Footsteps pulse a low grey. Every cue is tuned separately, and you can retune all of it.
Being straight with you
Sound has to be captured, analysed, routed and played, and a Bluetooth speaker adds a fifth of a second on its own. That puts Wavelinkth around 200 ms behind the game — wonderful for atmosphere, useless for winning a gunfight on reaction time. No software can fix that, so here's where it does and doesn't belong.
Yes
Horror, racing, open worlds, story games, films. A thunderclap moving across the room and the walls going white with it is a different way to play, and being 200 ms late costs you nothing.
No
If you're peeking angles off footstep audio, use wired headphones. Wired speakers with a smaller buffer get you to around 170 ms, which is better, but a headset still wins on reflex latency and always will.
Also
A drum kit fires a broadband transient several times a second, so gunshot detection would strobe the room red through every chorus. Music mode drives the lights from energy and colour instead — warm on lows, cool on highs, a lift on the kick.
How it works
01
Wavelinkth reads the exact mix your PC is already playing. No microphone listening to your room, no virtual audio cable, no driver install, and nothing to configure inside the game.
02
The mix is broken apart by direction and by event, then aimed at whichever speakers sit closest to where the sound belongs — whatever ring of speakers you happen to own.
03
Each speaker gets its own timed stream — through your PC's outputs, or over Wi-Fi to a phone sitting beside it. The light cue rides alongside, so the flash lands with the sound instead of chasing it.
Who it's for
Setup
An old bookshelf pair, a soundbar, a Bluetooth speaker on a shelf. Different brands, different corners — Wavelinkth doesn't care, it just needs to know roughly where they are.
Immersion
Horror, racing, open worlds. The room going dark blue in ambience and detonating orange on an explosion is a different way to play.
Tinkerers
Every spare phone or tablet becomes another speaker position and another light, running in the browser with nothing to install. That drawer is the cheapest surround upgrade you own.
Before you buy
Wavelinkth is software, so the honest limits are your PC's and your speakers', not ours. Nothing here is hidden in the fine print — it's better you know now than after paying.
Required
The way it reads your PC's audio is Windows-specific, so macOS and Linux aren't supported. The optional phone speakers work from any browser on any device.
Read this
That's your PC's radio, not our software — a single antenna can only hold so many audio streams. For more positions, add USB audio adapters at around $8 each (two speakers per adapter), or use spare phones.
Worth knowing before it puzzles you: pair two Bluetooth speakers and Windows will show both as connected while only one of them can actually be played through. Wavelinkth marks the other one unavailable and tells you why, rather than failing silently. Which speaker wins is the radio's choice and can change from one session to the next — neither speaker is faulty, and no setting on your PC changes it.
Ten minutes
Every speaker fires a click together and you nudge sliders until they land as one sound. It's done by ear because ears beat meters at this, and once it's set you never touch it again.
Speaker positions
Wavelinkth sends each speaker position its own audio, so the question is simply how many separate outputs your PC has. Here is the whole arithmetic, and what it costs to add more. We don't sell hardware — the links go straight to ordinary listings, and we make nothing either way.
Buy · the speakers
The part most people need. Any powered pair with a 3.5 mm input works — desktop speakers are the cheap route, powered bookshelf pairs the better-sounding one.
Buy · ~$8 each
Two speaker positions per adapter. Any generic one works — nothing to match or configure.
Buy · a few dollars
Long enough to reach the back of the room. Add a 3.5 mm-to-RCA cable if your speakers take RCA.
START HERE
The speakers already plugged into your PC become front left and front right. Nothing to buy, nothing to configure. If you only ever do this, Wavelinkth still works — it just has two positions to place sound between.
The cheap upgrade
A USB audio adapter is a thumb-sized dongle with a headphone socket. Windows treats each one as a separate output, so each adds two more speaker positions. Three of them gets you a full six-position setup for around $24.
Each one needs a speaker with a socket to plug into — check the port list below before buying.
One only
Pair as many as you like; your PC's radio will still only play through one of them. Windows shows the others as connected while refusing to send them audio, and which one it picks can change between sessions. Wavelinkth tells you plainly which speaker is unavailable and why, instead of failing silently.
Treat Bluetooth as one position, and add the rest over USB.
Check first
3.5 mm aux — straight into an adapter. Nothing else needed.
RCA, red and white — works with a 3.5 mm-to-RCA cable.
USB-C or USB-B carrying audio — the best case. Plug it into the PC and it becomes its own output: no adapter, no radio, no sharing.
USB-C for charging only — no audio path. Common on recent portable speakers, and the one to watch for.
Optical or HDMI — soundbar territory. Most also have aux or RCA; use that instead of buying a converter.
Bluetooth only — one of these, no more. See the Bluetooth note.
Not sure which you have? Plug it into the PC and press Rescan devices in Wavelinkth — if a new output appears, it carries audio.
Optional
Any spare screen opens a page in its browser and becomes another speaker position — and, unlike an adapter, a light as well. Nothing to install. That drawer of old phones is the cheapest upgrade you own.
Two builds
Four positions, ~$8. PC output for the front pair, one USB adapter behind you for the rear pair. This is the sweet spot — real directional sound for the price of a sandwich.
Six positions, ~$24. Three adapters: front, sides, rear. Beyond this the room matters more than the count.
Pricing
Wavelinkth is in early access — it works, and it's still being built. Buying now gets you the current Windows build and the updates that follow it. You're paying less than a game costs for something you'll leave running behind every game you own.
$15one time
Paid once. No subscription, nothing recurring on your card.
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