11-24-2004, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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Doozy of a problem
I decided to get excitable tonight and get the best of both worlds by using the digital/Analog-out on our 'Live 5.1' to connect to our home theatre's phono-in.
It goes from mini-stereo jack on the pc through a convertor to 2 RCA jacks. Anyway, unless I use creatives software to force the sound to the digital/analog jack I get no sound whatsoever. When I do force it I receive an extremely garbed output. When looking things over I decided to check if it was just that connection by using the line-out usually connected to the computer-theatre, but to no avail. While there was sound, it sounded just as the digital/analog jack had, very garbled. Anybody good with the connections? I would try a specialty site, but I was hoping to not have to go 'too far from the type of folk I understand'. |
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11-24-2004, 07:51 PM
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getting hitched
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: canada
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This converter, is this a simple Y plug, or a an attenuating (signal reducing type) converter. If it is a simple Y plug adaptor it should just hook up directly to an auxillary input. You are not hooking it up to a phono input are you, or a tape one, as the tape, and any quality phono one will be just for magnetic inputs.
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11-25-2004, 03:17 AM
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Da House Nerd
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: One CPU Lane
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yup... in any case, not the phono, because it has a special equaliser that makes the sound of the good old black plates a lot better. If you haven't got anything else, tape might do better, but AUX is def. the best, like hunter said.
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11-25-2004, 05:45 AM
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heh
I feel foolish. Thanks for the replies guys and I'll give it a shot when there are less sleepy people laying around the house. |
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11-25-2004, 06:51 AM
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getting hitched
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Dont feel foolish, as it only sounds simple to me as i took two electronics courses, and used to work professionally as a sound man.
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11-26-2004, 02:17 AM
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Da House Nerd
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WoW!
Hunter is da_man! |
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11-27-2004, 05:12 AM
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Floyd Collector
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: NW England
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I use a Sound Blaster MP3+. It has built in audio to optical conversion which i then pipe strait in to my Video 2 socket on my home cinema. Only slight problem i have now is that it's USB2.0 and it doesn't seem to talk back to the pc as I bought it so as to put vinyl onto my HD for conversion to cd, I'm trying to sort it with Creative to see if it's a system thing or a hardware problem
As for the DVD and CD, one click in the sound options in control panel and i got digital whatever i need coming thro' the home cinema just a case of swapping soundcards. As like Hunter says tho' anything that plugs into as an accessory goes into a socket of the same name unless it has a dedicated input for it like a phono or video in. |
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