I have many people asking me how to Connect so many Speaker's to my Computer, and instead of teaching every one of you individually, here is a Thread for all of you who want to Use their Home Theater System as their Computers Speakers.


How to do?

* First of you would need an RCA into Headphone Jack Converter which can be Bought From Any Hypermarket, Eg. Carrefour. It looks like this





* Secondly you would need some RCA cables to connect the Converter to your Home Theater system. It looks like this




* Thirdly You need to connect the RCA cables to The Place where it Says *INPUT*the colors of these input places are usually Red and white. Like in this Pic





Information about this

* if you want to Have "Surround Sound" You would need to have an Soundcard and you would also need More Converters and RCA Cables.

* If you wish to have as many Speakers as me. You would Need 2x 5.1 channel Amplifiers and Several Converters and RCA Cables

* It is not hard to do this things, it took me only 1 hour to Set up, No drivers or any Software needed. Just some Cables and Converters and of course an Amplifier

* Most Electronic Shops don't think it is possible to do this, But Rest assured it is. You May ask a few LYN members whom i Helped. They will tell you that this is Possible.

* It is not Really Necessary For you to use a Soundcard, unless you want 5.1channel Surround Sound or So on.

* Your Inbuilt Motherboard or even etc Phone,PSP,Mp3 Player can Be connected to the HT. As long as there is an Converter it will work.




ENJOY 5.1/7.1 On your PC!

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Sep 5 2010, 02:37 PM

With ATI videocard, 3xxx, 4xxx, 5xxx and HDMI receiver, you only need one HDMI cable for both video and audio. 4xxx and 5xxx support 7.1 LPCM so you get surround sound for your gaming without any sound card.

Also, you can get those soundcard with DTS connect or DD Live, it can encode 5.1 surround sound into SPDIF so you can connect your soundcard to amp with one coax or optical cable. No need RCA cable. It's easier and can support DD or DTS for movie too. Soundcard such as Auzuntech come with DD Live and DTS Connect technology.

This post has been edited by pierreye: Feb 11 2010, 08:36 AM

wah so lansi! ..

quote : i am kinda tired of Teaching every single one of you

heheh..

i prefer ur solution. simple and got the best sound possible

wait for sometimes...ati 5XXX low profile card is coming . The best solutions for ur HD audio

Optical/digital solution is preferred for "newer" mobo with optical out cos most AVR older than 5 years should hv optical in...

Both signal optical/coax are DIGITAL..

The optical cable is also called TOSLINK.

The coax cable is usually labeled ORANGE in colour and have RCA connectors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF

I thought most built-in mother board sound cars comes with SPDIF already? Still need to get those converter ah?

how to to connect to the old type of HT that dont have those kind of cable support.

THis is for people who have like the old type of HT that dont have HDMI or so on.


Also my Guide above also can be used to connect mobile phones or Mp3,psp to your Home Theater system

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Added on February 11, 2010, 1:02 pmhow to teach so many people????

might as well make a thread so people can just view....dont need me to pm me

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Added on February 11, 2010, 1:05 pmEven if the 5XXX series cards have the HD audio thing..but what is the point if the guys HT cant support it?


Some of us have the Newer HT that have Support. But for people like me who using the "Old" type of HT that dont have the Support thing...

how then?

Besides the converter thing also works for psp,handphone,laptop,Mp3,ipod and so on

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Feb 11 2010, 01:05 PM

Good stuff brah..

Thanks.

eh.. SPDIF is old tech ma.. right?

my mobo dont have that

Neither does My AMP i think

But you must agree thoes things mention above do have some good use.... You can play ur mp3 or psp using HT which is awesome

from the photo you posted... the orange color port should be the SPDIF input

i din know that was it

but my Mobo dont have o.

And i think most people here are using Onboard audio right?

datuk.. pakai Optical cable laa.. and upgrade the sound card to the one that can support optical. Settle.

have you considered what about the people who dont have the luxury of upgrading their stuff?

that is why i created this thread.

and also do you think a mobile phone or Mp3 player has an Optical cable? or if the Amplifier doesnt have a Optical input.

Please Consider about the people who do not have optical and so on.

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Feb 11 2010, 04:52 PM

no offense bro, twas just a thought.

but for those who can afford it will be way easier.

No offense taken , Yea the cable would a lot easier.

But for some of us who Cant afford or dont want to buy the expensive one.

The Only option for them is to Use the one in my guide

lol... you ah...

yea.. I'm using onboard Audio too.. it has that orange output thingy... never really used it though... haha

what mobo u using?

i am using Asus m2n68-am plus its quite a new mobo but it doesnt have the orange output thingy...

I think its Asus M3A... maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.. kekekkee.. then again, never really used it so it really doesn't matter for me...

ya ur lucky your mobo got inbuilt one


Anyway For those Who need Further Information. Feel Free To Reply here, I will Reply to your Question A.S.A.P

i want to get 3.5mm Stereo Jack splitter adapter look like sound card one pluged two 3.5mm stereo jack for two speaker same time i want high quality which brand for best

This post has been edited by logit85: Feb 11 2010, 10:25 PM

you want high quality what?

Splitter?

How many is many ppl?

Anyways for portable music players, handphones and even soundcard which dont have optical can use the Ichord cable which i have No need converter.

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Your way also can.

But i think mine is more practical.

yah spliter two input 3.5mm stereo jack
many brand diffrent quality sound
which best brand high quality sound clear to use spliter 3.5mm stereo jack two input

I dont really know about High Quality Splitter.

You may ask the Shop.

I just Provide the Guide, I dont know about the Splitters.

i have tried many Splitters but i think all of them have same quality

logi, just order Ichord cable from hifi shop. bagus punya... high quality, improve bass... splitter reduce quality, reduce boom boom bass.

currently using a HT setup for my computer
i guess the clarity is a lil too much for me lol
too good till tak boleh tahan
any ideas how to make my system more bass?
sounded like lacking of bass and equalizer alone doesn't help
need to try modding amp

What AMP are you using?

Mine Can Adjust Bass,Treble,Distance and stuff like that.

And there is a Nob which lets me increase the bass and treble

it's a NAD 302 amp
it's just a basic 2 speaker amp type
no 5.1 surround. just stereo
it has bass and treble adjustments but the bass isn't loud enough
trebles is ridiculously loud and clean lol

somehow the source affects the amp performance
for example my pc onboard sounded more bass than my psp through headphones
but when plugged to the amp,psp have better bass than pc
that makes me go crazy

Hmm why dont you just get another Pair of Computer speakers and get a soundcard and make your system 5.1?

I had to lower my Bass settings at my AMPS Interface thing cause the bass was too much

Btw the trick i learned is Put your Computer Speaker Volume at like 50-60% loud and put your amp louder that would Make the Sound Clearer and more bass in my case la


This post has been edited by Johan-N: Feb 24 2010, 05:46 PM

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TS's solution is affordable to every forumers here, but a bit classic and "outdated".... sorry TS, no offense...... but really, the splitter and converter will lowered the sound quality, i tried before, convert this lar, convert that lar.... but end up get myself a sound card, problem solved and the sound quality...... superb.....!!!! anyway, TS provided a nice guide.... bump bump bump!!!

No offense taken

i didnt really notice the poor audio quality cause i use soundcard ...but now i am using Mobo sound it sounds quite good

maybe got different quality cables?

Thanks for the BUMP!!!!

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Mar 1 2010, 04:30 PM

by putting the sc volume 50-60% and putting the amp louder will amplify too much distortion from the soundcard lol
I guess only way is new soundcard but I duwanna buy new one T_T
saving up for iphone 3gs lol

I had no distortion when putting volume at 50-60%

what Soundcard are u using now?

hey i wan to say wouldnt it be easier to just get RCA to 3.5mm jack cable?

but sadly my amp is super ancient ...

This post has been edited by LilRazor: Mar 31 2010, 12:32 AM

some one has said that already

anyway yes it is easier but that cable is hard to find

The most common one i found(tesco,carefour,jusco) only has the normal one...

oohh sorry i think i didn't read carefully then =D

i bought mine from digital mall after that i found out that have one at home =.=

never mind...

so your using HT system as pc audio too?

yep loving it =D

5.1 right?

Great to see a fellow Lyn member doing same thing as me

edit: lol ur playing bc2 too also

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Mar 31 2010, 01:15 AM

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BUMP!!!!!!

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Added on July 2, 2010, 5:20 pmBUMP

This post has been edited by Johan-N: Jul 2 2010, 05:20 PM

It's a good guide..Thanks for it..
Though just using simple 2.0 speakers for myself..
Just still lacking a subwoofer..

thanks mate

you do know u can make a 5.1 system with 2x 2.1 computer speakers


tried before... but must have 5.1 soundcard though.


if u have some old 2.1 speakers lying around try putting them behind u and connect them to ur sound card. Voila 5.1

Errr... if my maths is correct 2.1 x 2 = 4.2

well.

not true 5.1 la... but atleast u get something like surround sound.


in order to be 5.1 u require the front centre speaker.

but computer speakers dont have the centre one

bump also cuz im also usin my ht as pc audio
by the way rca to 3.5mm jack cable is easily found at pc shops
for those tat wan the easy way out

bt now im usin toslink

before migrate to ht system as my pc audio i have been used 3 different amp to get 5.0 surround sound.

yup but in penang computer shops dont have


u mean 5.1

hmm whats your total amount spent on ur amps and stuff?

Front full range speaker = china cap ayam brand amp
Rear speaker = sony truvox compliments from my eldest brother
Center speaker = altec lansing

nice. what SC you using?

creative audigy value2

@johan-n

ur room does hav a lot of speakers
wont tat b overkill
can show show ur room pic

yea but in my old house i got no neighbors

my old house


this are the only pics i have currently...upgraded since then...this is my beginning setup



got another one of this... takara subwoofer




my amp..now got another one of this amp



Attached thumbnail(s)

walao
such a big house
no wonder no ppl report to the noise pollution police
lucky u lolz

haha lolz


now its turned into resort dy....

that house is in selangor..im currently at penang

join my thread Glimpse of your house v1

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1298596&hl=

its full of fake pics mostly
too bad my house is a flat lot
im slowly movin up my ht set n my pc

yea... i think im the only one post real pics

hahahaha

Monthly Bump

why no weekly bump

you bump for me la...pretty busy

i do monthly bump for yew

lol thanks!

Sometimes connecting the PC audio output directly to an amplifier is susceptible to interference and electrical hum, which can be quite difficult to overcome other than totally disconnecting the audio output jack. This, of course, defeats the purpose.

So we try and isolate the computer a bit, using things like this Xitel MP3 streamer.

At this point, we're still at the mercy of the DAC inside the computer; and usually we don't know what the chip is and how good it is. Plus analog going out from the computer is a strictly non-audiophile interface and suject to PC electrical noise.

So we need a digital output from the PC - and very rarely PCs come with onboard digital SPDIF outputs - be it optical or coaxial. SO we have a few options; most common nowadays is to use a USB DAC

Another option is to use an Apple Airport Express - but you'd be tied to using iTunes as your media player.

going from there, you get solutions like a Squeezebox, stepping up to Sonos and ultimately the Sooloos.

The Sooloos is US15K on the average, but you can build a enthusiast's version of the Sooloos... which looks really interesting.

I don't think i can get the "electrical hum" i've been using my HT as pc audio for more than 2 years already

although if i connect my HT to my PSP,handphone and mp3 player there is a slight irritating hum but turning down the volume on the "psp,handphone and mp3" and raising the volume on the amp seems to make the "humming sound" go away

"susceptible" means it can happen to some people, even if it doesn't happen to you. But even you experience the hum with other devices, and "turning it down" is not really eliminating the problem.

hmmm im lucky i dont have the humming sound

nowadays most of the time use headset. only music use my ht

and i need a new sound card

I think I want that Joe Sixpack's Sooloos. I already have a USB sound card (Creative Digital Music SX)

my WDTV can play music from the external HDD, but the music interface is very basic

This post has been edited by SiriuslyCold: Sep 5 2010, 02:45 PM

sorry mate im not really much of an "audiophile" as u are. i dont even know what that is

i just simply hook up some speakers to my comp and off i go

click on the Sooloos link in my first post.

hmmm nice but im sure it has a pretty "nice" price tag too right?

us$15K

that's why there's a Joe Sixpack's Sooloos.

OMFG USD 15k for that????????????????????


i rather err buy 3 LCD's few more JBL speakers and a better HTPC and im happeh

wow
usd15k could get me a whole lot of btr eq n speakers
bt im usin spdif out
so no interference for me

you guys should understand the Sooloos is for people who already have a high-end system (source, speakers and amplifier) and a 15K component is an enhancement, not a necessity. So of course given US15K even I would spend it on other things rather than the Sooloos...

On the other hand, the Squeezebox Touch wouldn't be out of place and a logical enhancement given the level of my current system.





This post has been edited by SiriuslyCold: Sep 5 2010, 10:41 PM