Home theater to pc

[aci]

Hey there guys. I want to connect home theater speakers to my pc. Or only giant speaker ? Question is, how ? I got 6 speakers and receiver. I bought this home theater very long time ago so i hope it will work.
My motherboard is P8H61-M LX3 PLUS R2.0
My home theater is LG and have 5 small and 1 big speaker and they are all connected through wires to recveiver.

it looks like this on the back.

 

[Wolfshadw]

You will need something like this:

3.5mm to RCA.

The stereo plug will connect to your PC's green audio out. The RCA end will connect to your receiver's RCA inputs (Red/White). The length of the cable will depend on the distance between the two devices.

-Wolf sends

 

[13thmonkey]

Nope, nothing to be done, unless you can get a soundcard with line out (rare and pricey from what I recall). I'm not sure how that is meant to be a home cinema receiver, it can only cope with left and right in, no optical in, no coax in, no hdmi in, in short no multi channel in, just multi channel out so i'm not sure where it gets the information to create the multiple channels for the output.

 

[photonboy]

Not possible?

You didn't give the info on this unit, but it looks like a BluRay player or similar which can OUTPUT surround sound.

The PROBLEM is that I see no inputs other than STEREO (red, white).

 

[13thmonkey]

You will need something like this:

3.5mm to RCA.

The stereo plug will connect to your PC's green audio out. The RCA end will connect to your receiver's RCA inputs (Red/White). The length of the cable will depend on the distance between the two devices.

-Wolf sends

It will work, BUT, and it's a really big but, the inputs need to be line level, whilst the output you are using will be at headphone/speaker level, i.e. preamplified. Carefully set the volume to minimum on the PC and at a nice mid level on the receiver and work upwards, failure to do this could lead to too big a signal hitting the receiver, could damage speakers or receiver or could just sound nasty. If it works then leave the receiver volume alone and just use the PC volume.

 

[photonboy]

You will need something like this:

3.5mm to RCA.

The stereo plug will connect to your PC's green audio out. The RCA end will connect to your receiver's RCA inputs (Red/White). The length of the cable will depend on the distance between the two devices.

-Wolf sends

1) Stereo only though, and

2) He'd need MALE RCA inputs (or RCA M-to-M wires to connect to the above adapter like you'd normally use anyway)

3) update: as said above, may have level issues

 

[Wolfshadw]

1) Stereo only though, and

True, but given the receiver only has the one stereo input, I suspect it will attempt to simulate surround sound.

2) He'd need MALE RCA inputs (or RCA M-to-M wires to connect to the above adapter like you'd normally use anyway)

Very true. Very early when I posted so I did miss that. The above plus a set of RCA Audio cables would do the trick.

3) update: as said above, may have level issues

Maybe I've just been lucky, but my HTPC used to be set up like this and I didn't have any issues.

-Wolf sends

 

[photonboy]

Wolfshadw,
I didn't say it wouldn't work, only that it wouldn't properly use his speakers.

Surround sound emulation is very feasible as most devices support this, however in my experience it rarely works very well.

As for the "level issues" I did say it "may" have issues not that it will. There's a lot of factors.

So...
*He can use this device. I personally would invest in some traditional PC speakers. I generally recommend 2.1 (stereo plus subwoofer) depending on budget.

I find SURROUND is often very problematic to setup properly. Another issue is that BUDGET constraints often mean choosing between reasonably good 2.1 speakers or crappy surround sound.

 

[photonboy]

PC 2.1 examples:
(USD, rebates)

$45-> http://pcpartpicker.com/part/logitech-speakers-980000354

$120-> http://pcpartpicker.com/part/logitech-speakers-980000402

The audio INPUT is handy too. You can add any 3.5mm headphone jack output as an input and use this as a stereo system without the PC.