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stewrt

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Hey all I've read alot of posts here about people connecting their PC to their Home theatre. Some successful some not so.
Presently I have a Mobo with Optical out but going through the wall and over to the theatre ... well I'm gonna shatter that optical cable.
What I would like to know is if theer is an affordable (around $50) solution that would allow me to hook up via Digital Coax out of my PC to my theatre. That lil Orange RCA plug.
What would the difference be in wether this was a USB device or a seperate sound card? I've seen more and More USB solutions for audio lately.

Thanks all,
Stuart
 
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diablo900t

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If you've got a digital coax out on the PC. I'm assuming you have an onboard card, most of the new Mobo's come with optical and coax out now. You can use just a regular RCA cable and run it from the digital coax out on the PC into the home theatre. I use it for my setup, I don't see any problems with signal and interference. Basically you pay for getting shielded cables with digital coax. If you ask me, I've never been able to tell the difference between a hq monster cable coax and regular thin RCA cable. You can probably get like 100' RCA cable on ebay for $10.
 
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corkyg

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Don't try to be so fancy and elegant. Just use a standard stereo mini-jack from your sound card's or mobo's LINE OUT port to your stereo's AUX or other open line in port. I've done it that way for years. The cost of the audio coax cable should be an order of magnitude less than $50.
 
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Auric

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USB, like onboard, uses the CPU for processing -as opposed to a hardware sound card. I wouldn't bother with USB. You could either get an optical to coaxial convertor or a sound card with coaxial output for less than $20. The former is E-Z while the latter has the potential of increasing general audio quality and performance, especially if you choose to spend more. Either way, you may then make use of bog-standard yellow-coded coaxial video cable (aka digital audio cable when sporting orange colour), or common RG-59 or RG-6 for long runs (with F-type to RCA plug adapters if pre-made for cable TV/satellite. If going with the sound card option and it has a mini-RCA jack, then a mini (3.5mm) mono plug to RCA jack adapter would be called for.
 
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KamiXkaze

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as long as you have the imputs on your Mb or sound card (take your pick) then everything should be ok for now.

KxK
 
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