Hi all,

I just bought an Samsung LCD and would like to connect my SB Live 5.1 to it. I did some research there is a converter change the SB Live wires to RCA. But I have no clue where to get it. On the other hand, I went to a shop to ask about this converter and the person told me that an amp is required. So I need some help regarding this issue.

My speaker model is SB Live! 5.1 comes with a sound card. Around 6 years old.

TV model : Samsung series 6- 610

Thank you for all replies before hand.

you need to find a 3.5mm jack to rca Y cable. I'm sure you can find in hypermarket or local electric store. amp is not required.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. But my speaker is 5.1 . It has 3 jack outlets instead of the usual single jack. It comes with a sub-woofer as well

in first post, you asked on how to connect your sound card to lcd tv..but now?

can you please describe clearly your setup?

My speaker is Creative Inspire 5100 which is a 5.1 system. When I bought it , it was bundled with SoundBlaster Live! sound card.

The 5 speakers connects to the sub-woofer individually. From the sub-woofer , 3 port out jack(wires) similar to 3.5mm jack then connects to sound card.

However, that is the set up on a PC. Currently I would like to connect the speakers to a LCD TV.

On a PC , the speakers run connects through the sound card which has specific ports for each of the 3 cable. On the other hand, the LCD TV doesn't.

I was wondering how could I connect the speakers to the LCD TV.

Thank you!

I don't think it is possible to connect the speakers to your LCD TV.

Don't think you can do that.

the 3 jacks is designed only for PC sound card.

I had same problem too. I have Enzo 4000 with 3 jacks. In the end I still connect to my LCD, but using the RCA (white/red) only.
Output is stereo and no 5.1 , although I am pretty happy with it, its a PC speaker afterall.

EDIT: You want to connect TV to speakers. My bad. Yeah. You need the cable shown by Arafat. And even then only front two speakers will have sound. Cannot be helped(*1). You're better off getting an AVR.

(*1) If your TV has audio out or headphones out, you can theorically shoehorn it to PC by plugging it into PC Line-In, but then there's no point in doing that since the PC must be always on to process the sound. Might as well mod your PC into a HTPC and use tuner card...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 25 2010, 01:59 PM

Thank you for all the reply. Seems impossible to get 5.1 then , only normal stereo.

Thanks again

actually it is still possible to get the front & rear speakers working, for centre speakers you need to enable matrix mode if available

you need to get this type of converter



i got it free with my logitech