creative xfi soundcard hook up to home reciever

[djk12587]

Hello,

I am interested in hooking up my creative extreme music sound card up to my home theatre system. I know i cna hook it up with these cables, cables. The only thing i am worried about is my home theatre is a 5.0 system. (I have rather large center, front left and front right speakers that can handle the bass easily) I am concered that if i hook up my soundcard which is set for a 5.1 system into my home theatre 5.0 system that i will lose some bass. Anyone have some input on this?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

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So you have a 5.1 multichannel analog input on your receiver?

For soundcards, full range signals are usually sent out to all speakers so that should put you in good shape for most material. I think you'd only run into trouble if you tried to play something with a dedicated LFE track (like a DVD).

How robust are these speakers that they don't require a subwoofer?

 

[djk12587]

Yes, I do have a 5.1 multichannel analog input on my reciever.

My center has 2 6 inch cones, and my front elt and right have 12 inch cones each. The bass is easily strong enough to shake the floor.

The cables only cost about 15 bucks so why not try anyways.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

As an alternative you could try to hook up digitally and you'd have better control over bass management
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

 

[djk12587]

For a digitcal cable to connect my xfi to my reciever i would look for one of these cables right? 3.5 mm to optical cables

Also, I have a set of logitech z5500 speakers for my computer. I was wondering if it is plausible to hook up just the subwoofer into the system. I think i would have to hook up my sound card to the 5.1 analog receiver, and then from my sound card to the z5500 controller for the sub. That seems like it would be a mess, but im just wondering.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

There are enough different versions of creative digital outs that I'm not confident telling you which cable you need. The manual should be able to tell you for sure.

You could hook up the z-5500 sub. You could get an adapter and go from the receiver's subwoofer pre-out and run that to one of the inputs on the z-5500 control pod and use it that way.

If you hooked it up to the soundcard, changing the volume on the receiver wouldn't change the subwoofer volume and it of course would only work when you had the computer as source and nothing else.

 

[djk12587]

Im going to try the digital connection, thanks for all your help I appreciate it.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Good luck!

 

[Canai]

I've got my xFi hooked up to my reciever with 1/8" to RCA cables. Works fine and sounds good. I remember there being some issues with the digital conenction when I put my comp together a year and a half ago, but those might have been sorted out by now. Let us know how the optical connects work out.

Do you have the xFi with optical ports, or are you running the converter cables?