connecting sony receiver to pc

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:49 pm

Hey guys i want to connect my Sony surround sound 5.1 speaker system to my pc.
But don’t know how?
I have a X-Fi Xtreme music sound card from creative. But it has no stereo inputs.
Do I need to buy some sort of special connector?

Basically I just want to know where to start.

Btw my computer room as shit all over the place now…lol

Skuzzlebutt · Post by **Skuzzlebutt** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:07 pm

Hi stranger.

You need one of these cables:

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storef ... View/C1080

Then you'll need to tell your X-Fi to output a digital/spdif signal for Dolby Digital. Should be all go.

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:15 pm

Cheers Skuzz

off to dicks now

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:09 pm

Skuzzlebutt wrote:Hi stranger.

Then you'll need to tell your X-Fi to output a digital/spdif signal for Dolby Digital. Should be all go.

How do i do this?

wide load · Post by **wide load** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:16 pm

As silly as it sounds, read the instructions

Skuzzlebutt · Post by **Skuzzlebutt** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:52 pm

Heh...instructions are for girls.

Somewhere in the soundcard settings (don't have my XFi installed right now to be able to tell you exactly where) is an option to set the soundcard to either decode Dolby Digital itself (for if you have speakers plugged directly into your soundcard) or to pass through the digital signal via the SPDIF port to an external decoder (such as your Sony).

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:04 pm

if you want proper surround sound channels wogers you'll need to do the good old standard component in, where you have three cables from your sound card to your PC, the fronts, the rears, the center/sub

ya amp won't split up the digital signal properly from a creative card (i'm not 100% sure on the X-fi but as far as I know no creative cards send a standard digital signal, they all send a bastardised one you'll find that you can only run stereo sound from your digital signal)

but skuzzles post sounds interesting, can the X-fi card actualy output a proper 6 channel digital signal?

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:16 am

Well i got it going in the end but it did not sound to flash.
I was only trying to save money, but looks like i will just go out and buy a new speaker system.

cheers for your help skuzz

Anyone want to buy a new cable

Skuzzlebutt · Post by **Skuzzlebutt** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:43 am

Snake Rogers wrote:Well i got it going in the end but it did not sound to flash.

Define "did not sound too flash"

Did you get the digital output working?

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:43 pm

Skuzzlebutt wrote:
Snake Rogers wrote:Well i got it going in the end but it did not sound to flash.
Define "did not sound too flash" Did you get the digital output working?

Who knows?

Define "who know's"

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:35 pm

sort it out wogers

you should get good sounding stereo sound at least with yer digital cable, have you set your sound card to output digital sound, and made sure you plug into the digital out, cause if you go from the standard sound outputs it might sound banger :P

sandyk · Post by **sandyk** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:57 pm

Skuzzlebutt wrote:Heh...instructions are for girls.

thats why you dont see many of us on forums asking how to get something to work :P