First, I want to clarify, it's not what most people refer to a 5 speaker system. It's a 4.1 system. They do have 2 minijacks for front and rear. With just 1 headphone jack, you can hit the m3d button(surround effect that doesn't rape the sound too bad) to get audio on all four speakers. They also have screw down type connectors so you can use regular speaker cable to run the satellites. They are excellent for computer speakers, and get quite loud. You might need to adjust your eq to compensate for heavy bass though.