Hooking up home stereo to my computer

[captsniper]

I am currently trying to hook up my home stereo to my computer because all of my music is on now on my harddrives. I only have an advance ac97 motherboard (on board) for sound. And plugging a "y adapter" into this output and my home stereo is not quite cutting it. Im looking for a sound card that will provide clear high quality output to my stereo. I dont need a powered out, i just need an rca out I believe. I could be wrong here. What exactly is it im looking for in the sound card is what im trying to determine, just a line out? (left and right)? If not, what exactly is the option in looking for? I need a soundcard thats hooks up easily to a home stereo reciever. i dont need any computer speakers as my home receiver and speakers should take care of that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Nate

 

[Athlongamer]

Get the Audigy 2 zs sound blaster, it is prolly the best sound card out there and won't kill ur wallet. But it's def. worth it, and i'm sure u can use this card to hook up to your amp. You should look into that card some and find out for sure. Hope i helped

 

[konakona]

sounds like you are another AV-710 candidate. kills any audigy for 2channel analog music playback, even better if you go digital only with prodigy 7.1 bios flash.

 

[CSMR]

There are some sound cards with RCA like the M-Audio audiophile. Most have recording functions too which you don't need; you may get best value out of a card with good digital out and a separate DAC.

 

[Homerboy]

get a streaming A/V appliance instead.

Turtle Beach Audiotron
Pinnacle Show Center
Modded XBOX running XBMC
Squeeze Box
Prismq

there are tons of options other than the archiac method of hooking your stero up to yoru PC.

 

[konakona]

but why would u tho? for $23 shipped u can get bit-perfect digital output...

 

[imported_Solace666]

I have my Shuttle hooked up to my stereo receiver through the onboard S/PDIF connection. Great sound if you can do this. I listen to all my music, also on my hard drive, and watch movies like this. If you only want two channels you can go for what VanillaH is stating but I would still go for the Audigy, especially if you can hook it up through the digital out.

 

[orangat]

The m-audio cards like the revolution 7.1 are better for music lovers than the audigy2.
Its offers true 24bit/96khz processing unlike the audigy2. So its money better spent on the revo if you are primarily an audiophile.

The audigy2 has eax3/4 and eats up less cpu time and so is better for gamers. Its a pretty decent card for listening to music/dvd's as well.

 

[lucrioual]

yea, m-audio cards own
get the one with the 10 in 10 out, hahahaha
we have that on our audio pc at my school that we do a lot of work on
its awesome
def worth the money
great sound out of it