Hooking up my PC to receiver

[zealit]

Hello there,

I bought a receiver today and I'm going to hook up my PC to it. I have an X-Fi XtremeGamer and I was wondering if I'm ok to assume that 3.5mm to RCA x3 is going to do the job because I see in the multi channel input of my receiver :

Surround Front
----L---------L------Center
----R--------R------Sub

So is there a channel that contain L(center) and R(sub)? both of the connectors are black instead of red and white.

 

[Chapbass]

sorry im a little tired to look atm, but isnt there a digital out on the xfi? if its like the other cards it needs some weird creative adapter to go to like a digital coaxial cable, but if so you could definitely do that.

 

[zealit]

there's indeed a digital out, I'd need to order a toslink-mini toslink cable and also buy the digital pack (for some reason you gotta buy a digital pack for 5$ to get DDL/DTS encoding so the receiver can decode the signal) else u get 2.1 PCM from the optical. Plus, I don't know if the DACs are better in my receiver (it's an entry level receiver) so I'd rather go the simple analog way

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: zealit
there's indeed a digital out, I'd need to order a toslink-mini toslink cable and also buy the digital pack (for some reason you gotta buy a digital pack for 5$ to get DDL/DTS encoding so the receiver can decode the signal) else u get 2.1 PCM from the optical. Plus, I don't know if the DACs are better in my receiver (it's an entry level receiver) so I'd rather go the simple analog way

Y-Adapter

You can most likely purchase 3 of the adapters from Monoprice from what you will pay for one from radio shack. I take it you can pass a 5.1/7.1 analog multichannel PCM to the receiver but will it do DLL?

edit: I didn't say that worth a dang ... can your receiver convert a 2-channel stream to DLL?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Three of the y-adapters heyheybooboo mentioned should work. You could possibly run into an issue with bass management. I haven't looked at the current state of the X-Fi drivers in over a year, but last time I checked it out I think their crossover control was called "bass redirect". This would allow you to sent low frequency information from each of the 5 channels to the subwoofer signal. Without this feature on the soundcard, your 6 channel input on your receiver probably bypasses the receiver's bass management. Do you see an option for bass redirect or something similar in your X-Fi control panel?

 

[zealit]

Finally went the Y adapter way with bass crossover. I'm pretty happy with how it sounds