I just recently bought new speakers for my PC and PS2, the logitech x-530 5.1 surround sound system. It sounds great on my pc, but I'd love to have it for my ps2 also for games and dvds. One problem, I have no manual and no idea how to get that to work. I have a optical audio cable I bought at Toys R Us, which is what I need I guess for for the digital audio for the ps2. I don't know where to go from here though. What else do I need? The logitech website says my speakers work with the PS2/xbox game consoles, but it says I need a game console adapter... Isn't that what I have already? I cannot find any help for this, as I was looking online for hours.
Logitech x-530 5.1 speakers with playstation 2?
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YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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I don't remember, what kind of output does the PS2 have?
Two RCA (white and red)
An optical out
Anything else?
If there's nothing else, it's going to be expensive to get true 5.1 out of the PS2.
The PSU will only output stereo through the RCA jacks. On a set of speakers like your x-530s, you're not going to be able to enable anything with them that will expand a stereo signal to all your speakers.
You can easily get sound from them, but it will only come out of the front left, front right, and sub.
This RCA to 1/8" adapter would plug into the output of the PS2 and allow you to plug in your green connector of the x-530s. The center and surrounds wont play anything, but it's a start.
Do you have a soundcard or integrated audio?
If you have a soundcard (or nice integrated audio I guess), it's possible that you could have a setting that would expand a stereo signal to play on all your speakers. It's not going to be true 5.1, but it would then play on all your speakers. You'd accomplish this by pluggin the PS2 with that adapter (and an extension cable probably) into the line-in of your soundcard. There may be a setting in your sound utility program that would expand this to all the speakers.
Ok, the real solution to this problem is to get a decoder that will output to 1/8" jacks.
This creative decoder would do that, but I think it would be a pretty foolish idea to hook up a $120 decoder to a set of $40 speakers.
With the decoder option, you'd get true DD surround from DVDs (and games too if the PS2 outputs an AC3 stream somehow in gaming, I don't have one so I don't know).
If you like the true surround idea, I think it would be a better idea to just get a set of speakers with a decoder built in like these z-680s. It's not that much more than getting a decoder alone, and you're getting much better speakers than the x-530s are.
Two RCA (white and red)
An optical out
Anything else?
If there's nothing else, it's going to be expensive to get true 5.1 out of the PS2.
The PSU will only output stereo through the RCA jacks. On a set of speakers like your x-530s, you're not going to be able to enable anything with them that will expand a stereo signal to all your speakers.
You can easily get sound from them, but it will only come out of the front left, front right, and sub.
This RCA to 1/8" adapter would plug into the output of the PS2 and allow you to plug in your green connector of the x-530s. The center and surrounds wont play anything, but it's a start.
Do you have a soundcard or integrated audio?
If you have a soundcard (or nice integrated audio I guess), it's possible that you could have a setting that would expand a stereo signal to play on all your speakers. It's not going to be true 5.1, but it would then play on all your speakers. You'd accomplish this by pluggin the PS2 with that adapter (and an extension cable probably) into the line-in of your soundcard. There may be a setting in your sound utility program that would expand this to all the speakers.
Ok, the real solution to this problem is to get a decoder that will output to 1/8" jacks.
This creative decoder would do that, but I think it would be a pretty foolish idea to hook up a $120 decoder to a set of $40 speakers.
With the decoder option, you'd get true DD surround from DVDs (and games too if the PS2 outputs an AC3 stream somehow in gaming, I don't have one so I don't know).
If you like the true surround idea, I think it would be a better idea to just get a set of speakers with a decoder built in like these z-680s. It's not that much more than getting a decoder alone, and you're getting much better speakers than the x-530s are.
I'm not quite sure I understand all this, but thank you for your response! I really don't care about Surround sound for my PS2, I mostly just want a better sound system with louder sound, my tv has terrible speakers. Is there a way I can possibly get an adapter that I can switch the speakers between my ps2, and computer with ease, since I will use the speakers for both?
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If you have a line-in on your soundcard, just get that cheap little adapter I linked to and a 1/8" stereo extension cable. Run this output from the PS2 to the line-in on the soundcard.
You can keep your computer speakers plugged into you computer then like normal.
The speakers will output all the normal computer sounds + whatever the PS2 is playing when line-in isn't muted.
You can keep your computer speakers plugged into you computer then like normal.
The speakers will output all the normal computer sounds + whatever the PS2 is playing when line-in isn't muted.
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No problem. Do you know if you have a line-in? (it's usually a blue jack on your soundcard)
If you do, these are the things you should get ( just making sure
)Extension cable (that one's 12', you can get something longer/shorter if you want)
Male RCA to female 1/8" adapter
If you have any questions let me know.
EDIT: oh, and if you get those from cablesforless, make sure you look at USPS priority instead of UPS ground, it's cheaper.
Yes I have line-in. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card right now, but plan on buying an audigy 2 soon enough. Thanks again.
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