kms1357

Hello, im new to the forum! I came here to mainly ask one question where i cant find the answer to. I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 that i purchased sometime in 2002, probably march, not sure. Well, i recieved a nice 6.1 hometheater system and its great. Now, i got sufficient coaxial cable and both ends are RCA. Problem is, the home theater connects fine but my pc does not. I searched extensively to find how to connect it and no luck. I know on the card theres an set of pins labled SPDIF_IO. To my knowledge, thats either input or output. I need output. Is there like a cable that i can connect to those pins and on the other side have the RCA connector for the digital coaxial cable?

Thank you very much

And sorry for my english, its not perfect yet.

classic_leon

The easiest way is to buy a SBlive! "Digital I/O".



You could purchase it by online from Creative.com. The price is only 80RMB(less than 10 US Dollars). There are "SPDIF_IN" and "SPDIF_OUT" on the bracket.

BTW, the way you connect sound card and your theater system is that you go and buy 3 cables, each of them has a pc jack and two RCA jacks. Using RCA jacks to connect to your Power Amplifier, and then connect your theater system to Power Amplifier.

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dj_stick

that's the only way to get true 5.1 sound out of the card

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Yes it's true...only 3 analog outputs connected to 6CH INPUT in Home Cinema AV Receiver gives you real 5.1 sound from every sound source. When you connect card with digital spdif cable then only movies in Dolby Digital/DTS formats will be played in 5.1 and rest of sounds will be only stereo...

I have SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) and Yamaha RX-V440, but i'am sure the same problem will be with SB Live...

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My speakers: http://diyaudio.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1446
My subwoofer: http://diyaudio.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=483

dj_stick

it is the same problem with all sound cards, apart from the nForce 2's Soundstorm

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Jitter

I was confused about this myself I have a Audigy 2 ZS w/ a 5.1 home system. When i hook it up to the font left/right, back left/right, or center/subwoofer outs, it seems to work right, but within windows my creative speaker test only produces the correct sound w/ the 2.1 speaker test. When Im playing a game, watching a movie, or listening to music all of my speakers seem to be working properly, so I am not sure if I am getting true 5.1 sound or not.

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dj_stick

are you using the analogue outputs? from what i can read from your post you are.
ignore the speaker test if everything seems to work though, one way to test is to play a game where there is a noise source (or perhaps just lob a grenade or something) and turn in different directions and hear if the noise (grenade explosion) comes from all sides or comes from the correct direction

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