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Post by iGuess on Oct 2, 2006 18:17:38 GMT -5
Okay. So I have 5.1 surround sound with my DVD player, but my DVD player is screwed up so I just use the sound on my TV. So basically I have 5.1 surround sound speakers just sitting in my living room. I am wondering what it is going to take to hook them up to my computer and have them work right?
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Post by lulu on Oct 3, 2006 6:03:11 GMT -5
What kind of connection do they use? Are they the kind that is spliced at the tip and you 'clamp' it into the DVD reciever?
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Post by iGuess on Oct 3, 2006 17:45:19 GMT -5
Doh. I seriously have no speaker knowledge. Computers yes, speakers not at all. I'll go look and tell you what I see.
Okay so I have a few cords that I don't know where they go.
One thing says 75(symbol for omega) that has a really weird plug.
Then I have the standard red white yellow output things except the red and yellow ones are gold and thick.
Lastly there is an S-Video out cord plugged in.
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Post by lulu on Oct 4, 2006 9:43:39 GMT -5
Well the best thing I would recommend is to get a SPDIF cord and connect your soundcard to the external surround sound system. Another thing to do is to get 3 pairs of stereo PC speakers and connect one of them into the front out, one in the rear out and the other in the center out. If your soundcard only has one out line then your sound card dosen't support surround sound. I saw a CompUSA brand 5.1 sound card for 20 bucks.
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Post by iGuess on Oct 5, 2006 19:16:26 GMT -5
Okay. That only kinda confused me. I got a much better look at my speakers. On the back of the subwoofer there are a ton of places where you take the casing of the end off of basic speaker wire and stick it in the little springloaded clamp. Then you run 2 wires to each speaker. One is black and one is red. They wires connect in the same way to the speakers as they do to the subwoofer.
Now the subwoofer connects to the DVD player with something that the manual calls a "System Cable" which seems to be a common thing when I looks at other surround sound systems online. So how exactly would I connect the system cable to a sound card in my computer?
Finally, I have a iMac G5. To me, it seems like there would be no way to connect cables to the sound card with the design of the computer. That, plus the fact that finding a sound card for a mac is more diffucult than one for a PC.
Hey... at least I'm making progress.
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Post by lulu on Oct 6, 2006 16:18:18 GMT -5
You need something called a SPDIF cord. It has a mono mini jack on one end and a mono rca jack on the other end.
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Post by iGuess on Oct 7, 2006 12:31:18 GMT -5
Well I'm not sure about that cord. I THINK I have made a plan. I buy this this bad boy for $20. I get speakerwire and solder the end of it to 1/4" plugs so I can plug them into that little box. Then I cut open the system cable and figure out which one of the wires inside of it sends just the subwoofer's sound. Then I solder just that wire to a 1/4 inch cable. I'm not sure what would happen if I solder all of the wires in the system cable. Really, I'm not sure if this will work at all.
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Post by Osama Bin Laden on Oct 10, 2006 20:22:18 GMT -5
Im not sure thats a great idea. Maybe just get an adapter like IC3 said?
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Post by iGuess on Oct 14, 2006 15:54:32 GMT -5
The problem is that the company that made the DVD player really doesn't want to make it easy to use these speakers. One cord sends all the channels to the subwoofer and then the subwoofer has the jacks for each speaker to come out of. I don't see any way to hook up the cord that plugs into the subwoofer from the DVD player into a computer. And if I do find a way, it won't be real surround sound. It will just be stereo being played through 6 speakers.
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