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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
I wanna know if i can connect to my pc serround system like this one:
what i need to do to get them connected to my pc ? |
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| _Nut_ |
What receiver do you have and what sound card do you have?
It is all about interfacing. You will more than likely have either a digital out or dual stereo outs on your PC, and its just what you will need to put it into your receiver to play to the speakers. |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
what means that i need to buy a reciver?
Realtek AC'97 5.1 |
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| kid nyce |
Well here's a simple explanation
The audio out from your computer (sound card) should have an interface to your computer speakers, meaning your speakers connect to the back of your computer via some sort of wire connection, whether it be RCA or mono-stereo. In order to connect the speakers above to your Computer (sound card) you'll need to have a unit that is taking the signal out from the computer and then processing it to put the sound out to those speakers.
Chances are your computer speaker system does not have a wired interface to handle plain speaker wire, so you might need to invest in a receiver. A receiver will take the signal from your computer (sound card via RCA or Mono-Stereo) and amplify the sound signal to output at an acceptable level on those speakers.
You can't just buy speakers and try to rig it to work, it may work for the time being, but you'll end up not using the speakers to their full potential. Suggest you do a little reading up and be clear as to what you have, what you want, and how much you can spend, then we might be able to give you better recommendations. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
what means that i need to buy a reciver?
Realtek AC'97 5.1 |
From the picture you posted it is difficult to know if it is and active system ( integrated amplifiers to each speakers ) or passive in which case you will need to buy an external amplifier.
on your computer you will either have something with all the separate audio outputs like shown on the right of the sound card which has front, surround, center, subwoofer( or perhaps just one audio output Left and Right ) or it will also have a digital output like on the left
The digital output could either be coaxial like shown above or
optical toslink:
depending on your sound card and the inputs on the system you want to purchase you will have to see the different ways to plug everything in
if you do the interconnection with the digital or optical connectors you won't need anything else as these can handle 5.1 full surround sound ( front, surround, center, subwoofer ) |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
what means that i need to buy a reciver?
Realtek AC'97 5.1 |
That's a fairly common soundcard chipset.
I am not sure if it handles coaxial or optical outputs like I showed in my above post.
It should normally have the different front, surround, center and subwoofer outputs. |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
| Thanks for the help =] |
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| *Sanchez* |
We have our pc linked up to the main HiFi
It's just a concord jack to phono (but not a cheap and nasty lead)
It still sounds very good but that might be down to the hifi as I spent a -lot- of money on it.
We are buying a new pc next year though so I have no idea if new pc's have digital outputs or not, as this pc doesn't |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by *Sanchez*
We have our pc linked up to the main HiFi
It's just a concord jack to phono (but not a cheap and nasty lead)
It still sounds very good but that might be down to the hifi as I spent a -lot- of money on it.
We are buying a new pc next year though so I have no idea if new pc's have digital outputs or not, as this pc doesn't |
Any mid to hi level audio card should have a digital coax or digital optical output. |
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