audigy outputs

[Codename49]

Is there some hardware tool I can buy which will conver an audigy's "orange, black, & green" output to something thatcan be plugged in to a home theater system receiver without degrading the sound? (plugging a component cable in green output works but it produces a really crappy mono quality sound )

Thanks,
Oleg

 

[chizow]

Does your receiver have 5.1 inputs? How are you trying to input to your receiver?

 

[Pariah]

It sounds like you are trying to connect to a digital input on your receiver using an analog out on the sound card. For obvious reasons this is a highly unrecommended thing to do. The orange plug is the digital out and will give you stereo output for standard audio.

 

[Codename49]

Quite honestly, I don't care as long as it gives good quality sound.

Receiver can take coaxial, optical, component, multi-in, you name it generally. The question is about getting something to conver the green (front), black (rear), and orange (center), into a more "standard" signal.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Codename49
Quite honestly, I don't care as long as it gives good quality sound.

Receiver can take coaxial, optical, component, multi-in, you name it generally. The question is about getting something to conver the green (front), black (rear), and orange (center), into a more "standard" signal.

Munging the 5.1 analog outputs into a single stereo signal or mono signal really defeats the purpose of having an Audigy 2 and a receiver. If you wanted a simple connection, you could just get stereo from the s/pdif output and run it to your coax-in. If you want quality and 5.1 all the time, you need to run your 3 analog outputs to your receiver via 1/8'' mini-jack to RCA Y adapters and plug them into the component/multi-in 5.1 inputs.

 

[Pariah]

There is no more "standard" signal. Either you have 5.1 analog out, or you have stereo digital (unless it is an encoded stream). The reason you are getting crappy audio with the coax is because you are using the wrong plug. Use the orange connector on the end, not the green one.

 

[Auric]

Get an adapter like this and use a video cable (coaxial) from the orange output to the coaxial input on the receiver. Do not use an audio cable or adapter as they are generally not coaxial. In Surround Mixer select Digital Output Only and in AudioHQ Device Controls select 48 KHz and also SPDIF passthrough to allow your receiver to decode DD (and additionally DTS).

This will allow sending DD/DTS and matrixed stereo surround (Dolby Pro-Logic II, Neo:6, Dolby Headphone, CMSS 3D and other DSP effects) but not discrete 4-channel analog like DirectSound3D with or without EAX for which you must use the analog outputs.

If you want to hook up both digital and analog then either split the orange connector or add another digital connector to the Audigy (add-on bracket or cable to the board). Then the output can be toggled by the Digital Output Only selector. If the receiver has an Auto sensing input for a shared digital input and the 5.1 analog inputs then that makes it easier otherwise you must toggle on that end too.