Altec Lansing ADA890 Speakers cables

[miamikk]

One of my friend gave me these speakers recently as he was relocating. He didnt give me any cables and I couldnt find much information online as these are discontinued.

I would appreciate if anyone here has these speakers and can email me pictures of the cables so I can get them.

Thanks for your help.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Welcome to AT.

Well, the first image on google image search turned up this but I'm kind of confused about what's there.

Oh wow, Anandtech did a review of them back in the day http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=1523

Does that help at all?

I imagine you're going to be hooking up for 4.1 via analog.

You'd need two 1/8" stereo cables to run from the soundcard on your comptuer to the inputs on the speaker system (In the sub, right?... I can't really tell if that's on the sub or on one of the backs of the front speakers).

For the sub to speaker connections, it looks like it gets a little strange.

Do the satellite speakers have cables attached to them? It looks like the surround speakers use mono 1/8" cables but the fronts use something similar to a ps/2 or s-video looking connection. Are any of those included?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Here's the manual.

 

[miamikk]

Thanks for the fast replies.
I actually gone thru the Manual, gone thru anand tech review and got couple of pictures of the cables via google but I wanted some who has these speakers to reply on how did he/she configured it.

The two 1/8" stereo cables look straight forward for a 5-piece setup but I am wondering on how to connect S/PDIF from sub to PC. And also what kind of S/PDIF cable should I buy.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: miamikk
Thanks for the fast replies.
I actually gone thru the Manual, gone thru anand tech review and got couple of pictures of the cables via google but I wanted some who has these speakers to reply on how did he/she configured it.

The two 1/8" stereo cables look straight forward for a 5-piece setup but I am wondering on how to connect S/PDIF from sub to PC. And also what kind of S/PDIF cable should I buy.

What kind of soundcard/integrated sound do you have that outputs SPDIF?

 

[miamikk]

I just got a Creative Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro. Though I am not sure if this card (the control box) has a SPDIF connector but the Altec lansing manual says the SPDIF connector on the Subwoofer needs to be connected to sound card for a 4.1 setup.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: miamikk
I just got a Creative Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro. Though I am not sure if this card (the control box) has a SPDIF connector but the Altec lansing manual says the SPDIF connector on the Subwoofer needs to be connected to sound card for a 4.1 setup.

It should do 4.1 with an analog connection easier.

With a digital connection, the best you're going to get for surround is a pro logic sort of output.

I'd stick with analog if you just got a nice soundcard.

 

[miamikk]

Then I will just get 2 stereo cables and setup 4.1
Thanks for your reply.