Sam Merlot
My frend give me beautiful "PHILIPS" 5.1 speakers from his home theater system unfortunately main player was stolen long ago and only thing left are spreakers.
So I want to connect 5.1 speakers to my PC but I'm having truble with it.
Computer store Is just around the corner any cable or part is available.
I know I definitely need 5.1 or 7.1 surround card but problem comes now
What Cable, What parts, do I even need amplifier and
whats the cheapest way to get this thing to work.
I have never in my life used more than a standard stereo.
PS. Oh I almost forgot the Important part speaker connector look like this http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Panasonic-SC-HTB350-Review-Home-Theater-Set-Top-Box-Speaker-Wire.jpg
and price range is 100 USD or 75 Euro MAXXX
Answer
- Whats the model number of the speakers? (Did not bother with looking at the pictures).
= It sounds like they are garbage home theater in a box speakers and cannot be used with anything else and thus they should be thrown into the garbage.
- Philips is not even a good speaker brand. If they are just regular passive speakers, you need a receiver (amplifier) and hook up the computer to the receiver with a hdmi cable or s/pdif optical cable or s/pdif coxial cable. If they are active (built in amplifier) speakers they will have those cable connections to directly plug speakers into computer.
- I really doubt they are computer speakers. If they are garbage computer speakers then they plug into the subwoofer (active) and the subwoofer plugs into a computer soundcard that has green fronts, black rears, orange center+subwoofer.
- Whats the model number of the speakers? (Did not bother with looking at the pictures).
= It sounds like they are garbage home theater in a box speakers and cannot be used with anything else and thus they should be thrown into the garbage.
- Philips is not even a good speaker brand. If they are just regular passive speakers, you need a receiver (amplifier) and hook up the computer to the receiver with a hdmi cable or s/pdif optical cable or s/pdif coxial cable. If they are active (built in amplifier) speakers they will have those cable connections to directly plug speakers into computer.
- I really doubt they are computer speakers. If they are garbage computer speakers then they plug into the subwoofer (active) and the subwoofer plugs into a computer soundcard that has green fronts, black rears, orange center+subwoofer.
Send PC audio to home theater system?
Shaun
I have my desktop computer at home which has an Asus sabertooth X79 motherboard in it. I recently bought a home theater system to do away with lots of cables running around the room and for better sound. I have a Yamaha RX-V573 5.1 that i need to connect the audio to. I would like to know my options. I have been reading around on the internet and found many solutions to this problem but unsure if they will work in my situation:
A HDMI & Optical to HDMI converter
3.5mm to rca
sound card with optical
spidf
setting graphics card to carry sound.
If you could help me with options i have and basically how to hook it up that would be greatly appreciated.
Picture of mobo: http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254/maylyn22/ASUS%20X79/Sabertooth%20X79/SabertoothX79-06.jpg
Picture of 5.1 system: reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57408045-221/yamahas-2012-midrange-receivers-boast-airplay-4k-support/
3rd picture down
Answer
I looked up your motherboard specs (did not look at pictures).
= s/pdif optical cable to s/pdif optical output on pc to s/pdif optical input on receiver. Look below for more details.
- It has 6 colored analog outputs, these 4 ports called green fronts, black rears, grey sides, and orange subwoofer+center = are for computer speakers.
- It has a 1 s/pdif optical output port = use that for your receiver.
- S/pdif optical will do up to 5.1 with the non-hd lossy surrround sound formats or uncompressed stereo.
- music is encoded in stereo and I recommend max quality lossless flac or max quality aac (aac/mp4/m4a is the new audio standard and is better than the old audio standard called mp3).
- Movies are usually encoded in 5.1. You should be able to find plenty of lossy formats and some loseless too while the loseless formats you will also find they do up to 7.1.
= If you want to do up to 7.1 and/or the hd loseless surround sound formats then you would need a hdmi output = someday when you upgrade your computer's soundcard.
I looked up your receiver.
- It can do up to the hd lossless or non-hd lossy surround sound formats or uncompressed stereo.
For audio cables: From best to least:
- HDMI or Displayport cables: is capable of up to 8 channels of audio and up to 24-bit-depth with up to 192,000hz sample rate at the lossless/hd compression surround sound formats.
- S/PDIF coaxial or s/pdif optical cables: is capable of up to 6 channels of audio and up to 20-bit-depth (16 or 24 optional) with up to 48,000hz sample rate at the lossy/non-hd compression surround sound formats.
- Scart or RCA R/W composite audio cables: is capable of up to 2 channels of audio and analog has maximum audio quality. RCA G/B/G/B/T/P for other channels.
- (Hdmi, displayport, s/pdif coaxial, s/pdif optical is digital audio), (scart or rca r/w or headphone jack is analog audio).
- Once you have the pc hooked up to the receiver (select receiver input mode and any other settings).
- I recommend these best free media players which are k-lite codec pack for media player classic or vlc player or kmplayer.
- Example: ffdshow for k-lite on mpc -> ffdshow audio decoder settings -> output -> select surround sound formats the cable and receiver supports and it will play what ever the file is encoded in (it passthroughs the surround sound untouched). (Go to media information to look at video/audio specs).
- If you want to touch the audio before you play it, you can edit it with a audio editor like audacity, I recommend you amplfy the channels to a maximum new peak of -0.1 which is below the clipping level. You can do what ever else you want to.ect then export and then play it on what ever media player you got.
I looked up your motherboard specs (did not look at pictures).
= s/pdif optical cable to s/pdif optical output on pc to s/pdif optical input on receiver. Look below for more details.
- It has 6 colored analog outputs, these 4 ports called green fronts, black rears, grey sides, and orange subwoofer+center = are for computer speakers.
- It has a 1 s/pdif optical output port = use that for your receiver.
- S/pdif optical will do up to 5.1 with the non-hd lossy surrround sound formats or uncompressed stereo.
- music is encoded in stereo and I recommend max quality lossless flac or max quality aac (aac/mp4/m4a is the new audio standard and is better than the old audio standard called mp3).
- Movies are usually encoded in 5.1. You should be able to find plenty of lossy formats and some loseless too while the loseless formats you will also find they do up to 7.1.
= If you want to do up to 7.1 and/or the hd loseless surround sound formats then you would need a hdmi output = someday when you upgrade your computer's soundcard.
I looked up your receiver.
- It can do up to the hd lossless or non-hd lossy surround sound formats or uncompressed stereo.
For audio cables: From best to least:
- HDMI or Displayport cables: is capable of up to 8 channels of audio and up to 24-bit-depth with up to 192,000hz sample rate at the lossless/hd compression surround sound formats.
- S/PDIF coaxial or s/pdif optical cables: is capable of up to 6 channels of audio and up to 20-bit-depth (16 or 24 optional) with up to 48,000hz sample rate at the lossy/non-hd compression surround sound formats.
- Scart or RCA R/W composite audio cables: is capable of up to 2 channels of audio and analog has maximum audio quality. RCA G/B/G/B/T/P for other channels.
- (Hdmi, displayport, s/pdif coaxial, s/pdif optical is digital audio), (scart or rca r/w or headphone jack is analog audio).
- Once you have the pc hooked up to the receiver (select receiver input mode and any other settings).
- I recommend these best free media players which are k-lite codec pack for media player classic or vlc player or kmplayer.
- Example: ffdshow for k-lite on mpc -> ffdshow audio decoder settings -> output -> select surround sound formats the cable and receiver supports and it will play what ever the file is encoded in (it passthroughs the surround sound untouched). (Go to media information to look at video/audio specs).
- If you want to touch the audio before you play it, you can edit it with a audio editor like audacity, I recommend you amplfy the channels to a maximum new peak of -0.1 which is below the clipping level. You can do what ever else you want to.ect then export and then play it on what ever media player you got.
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