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Need Speakers with Optical in Connection, Please Help.

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RyBoy

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Hello guys,

I need a set of speakers that have an optical in connection like the z-5500. However, I can't have speaker wire snaking around or have a large subwoofer as there is no room. However I do need an optical in connection. Do you guys know of any options? I would highly appreciate it! Thanks.
 
I hope you don't need an optical connection just because you have an optical cable : P

Do you happen to have a soundstorm enabled nForce2 motherboard, is that why?
 
I need the optical connection because I have a hddirectv receiver and it has optical out. I already have it hooked up to my monitor but I can't get sound. It would need to have a dolby digital decoder as well.

I have tried using line in on my sound card but it is horrible, along with my computer, so I don't want to have the directv receiver go through the computer at all. And it's not worth buying a new sound card either.

So, are there any recommendations, ideas?
 
What kind of speakers do you have?

If you only have a 2.0 or 2.1 set now and that's what you want, you might want to just get an input switcher to go between the analog output from your computer and the analog output from the receiver.

If you only have 2 speakers and it's sending a DD or DTS track, something that decodes to 5.1 isn't going to give you the playback you want on a 2.0 or 2.1 set. You'll miss the dialog etc.

There are products out like the Creative decoder, but I don't think that's a good buy really.

So if your receiver has analog out, I think a switch would be your best bet.
 
Could someone get me a link to that switch?

Also, I don't know if you're talking about the same thing, but I have a cable I bought at radioshack that takes the right and left analog audio to a line in. I tried that on my sound card (i think it is like a soundblaster live) and I can't get it to work.

Also, could I get a link to that creative decoder? Thanks!
 
A switch would do basically the same thing as running to the line-in on your soundcard, but I thought "horrible" was referring to noise or something from going through the soundcard.
You should be able to run it to your line-in. Make sure the line-in isn't muted. Does it work when you have a different source attached to the line-in?

A switch would be something like this
http://froogle.google.com/froogle_clust...681141822437739&q=rca+switch&scoring=p
Plug the computer in as 1 input, the receiver as the other, and plug the speakers into the output. You'd need a couple of adapters to get everything to RCA at the switch.

The creative decoder would be this one, but it's pretty expensive and I don't think you'd get good results.
 
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