I would like to get a reciever for my computer. Any suggestions?

[5489]

I have an Extigy sound card, and i would like to get a reciever. Are there any cheap recievers that i could use? I would be watching dvd's and such. are there any recievers that are designed for computers?

 

[5489]

any cheap recievers out there?

 

[Fausto]

I'm not super-familiar with the jacks on the Extigy, but if it has RCA-outs (same kind as on the back of a receiver) you can use it with any reciever that has AUX jacks on the back. Try the paper for used stuff or maybe check around town for a refurb outlet. I picked up a decent Pioneer 5:1 amp/reciever for $120 at the outlet here in Atlanta.

Fausto

 

[TomC25]

I bought a $25 receiver at a garage sale and hooked it up to my SB Live with a converter cable.

1\8th headphone connection on one end and red\white RCA connection on the other end.

Hooked it up to AUX input and it works great.

 

[XMan]

How would you get rear speaker support if you did this? This does seem like a pretty good idea to me because you could get some nice, big speakers and a receiver for less than what a set of Klipschs would cost.

 

[Jzero]

I got a broken Harman-Kardon AVR90 (Prologic) for free. It just needed a a fuse replaced. Works great.
You should be able to get a number of prologic (but not Dolby Digital or DTS) receivers for under $100 on Ebay or elsewhere. I just run the main output from the Live to the Aux-In on the receiver, enable "LiveSurround" et voila! Prologic it is.
I don't think DTS/DD works b/c Creative still won't pass the signal through to the receiver.