home theater and computer games

[ZAC]

HOME THEATER SOUND AND GAMES
is it possible to change tipical creative speakers 5.1 systems for a home theater and get 5.1 ut sound, eax,... and that stuff????? or it only will merge channel in one not recognizing the GAME 3D POSITIONING SOUND???

anyone uses home theater pluggedd on his computer

 

[Raczyk]

I was thinking of doing the same thing, since the home theater speakers sound much better then eny pc speakers...

And i am assuming all the features of pc speakers can be reproduced by a home theater set. Since the sound card produces the output and the speakers play what is send to them ...

 

[umheint0]

The only difference between home theatre speakers and PC speakers is quality. Obviously the home theatre speakers will be far superior.

Now let me explain what is going on here.

Your speakers are simply mechanisms which change electric signals into kinetic energy which your ears interpret as sound. Your receiver will take a signal (either digital or analog) and increase (amplify) the signal to be used by the speakers. Your soundcard is what actually processes the sound signal, the device that converts the little bit stream in your computer to a signal that an amplification device can use. Using 5.1 sound with EAX is more dependent on your sound card being able to process the signal than anything else. You will just have to make sure your theatre can accept 5.1 signals, or whatever configuration your home theatre is (different configs are 2, 2.1, 4, 4.1, 7.1, etc....). Make sure the sound card matches the theatre's configuration. Your soundcard will have documentation on how to setup the card.

If you want accurate 3d positioning, you will have to make sure your speakers are placed properly as well. This is important no matter what speakers you use.

I use a 2.1 configuration that I sometimes convert over to headphones. It's spectacularely easy to do.

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[ZAC]

You 2 r really nice. I´m impressed with the details you offer. It´s first time for me in this forum and i think i have found wht i need.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

now i´m gonna make my self an expert about home theater systems to choose the correct one. I wanna use my computer as DVD MUSIC GAME player.

THXX

peace&science