Z906 + Sound Card + HDTV + PS3

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have a question for this forum and I am quite stumped on the answer for this. Perhaps someone can help me.

I'm getting the Logitech Z906 soon, And I believe it has 2 optical inputs. Now I have a HDTV with HDMI in and Optical out from the TV. I also have a PS3 which also has HDMI out and Optical out.

This is the HDTV I have, A Samsung LN32B360C5D http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/LN32B360C5D.

I am also getting a new sound card for my computer that has optical in and optical out

And this is the sound card I am purchasing http://. A Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional . I think this is a good sound card for the Z906, I am trying to get the most out of the z906.

My question is this, Do I have to connect the optical out from the HDTV to the z906 even though the PS3 is connected from the HDMI out on the PS3 to the HDMI in on the HDTV or can I connect the PS3 optical out to the z906. Now the sound card I'm getting has Optical in and Optical out with DTS and DDS encoding in the card for 5.1. Would it make a difference if I connected from the optical out from the HDTV to the sound card then to the z906

 

[tomate2]

connect ps3 hdmi to hdtv
then optical from ps3 to logitech

 

[ssddx]

if the z906 has two optical inputs you can

-connect optical from soundcard to z906
-connect optical from ps3 to z906

this would give give you speaker access on two devices but not for regular tv proadcasts (or any task that just requires your tv)

you said your tv has optical output. you might be able to get away with

-connect optical from tv to z906

the tv may be able to passthrough the audio signals from all devices to the optical out. in a worst case scenario if this does not work you can always buy another optical cable and connect up each device individually to your z906 as i described above. remember you may have to enable the optical out option in the tv settings to bypass audio. if the tv can do this fine then its a single cable hookup, if not you can resort to a two cable hookup. no big deal really as cables arent that expensive and you only have two devices.

 

[Guest]

Would there be any benefit to the optical cable from HDTV to the sound card I listed? Would it give me the effects of the card like "scout mode" if I played a PS3 game?

 

[ssddx]

i forgot to mention this but if you end up connecting:
-optical from tv to z906
-hdmi from ps3 to tv
-hdmi from pc to tv

then your soundcard is being bypassed. i think the z906 has decoding onboard. perhaps you can save money and not buy a soundcard then. in the case where you have an optical cable connected to your soundcard it still may be bypassed hence my point.

to answer your question...your soundcard will not affect the ps3. it will likely not even factor in with the pc if connected via optical.

does the z906 have regular 3.5mm connections? if you connected the pc soundcard up to the speakers via this typical pc speaker connection schema then you will get benefits of your soundcard with the speakers when using the pc. again, the ps3 is not going to be affected.

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just so you have an idea where i'm coming from...

i hook up a ps3 and pc to my receiver which cade decode audio so my audio streams from the two devices are sent to the receiver instead of being processed onboard. i have $1300 worth of audio equipment hooked up and no discrete sound card in my pc (everything is output from my video card which supports sound out via hdmi). the video signal gets split off and goes to the tv and the receiver processes the sound.

i belive the z906 decodes sound as well (since it accepts optical inputs) so it should be a similar situation.