Subwoofer is black/red wire connection

[Alienwho]

Anything I can do to reuse an old RCA subwoofer that has nothing but a black/red wire coming out of it. It was part of a HTIB that had connectors on the receiver. My new receiver (Pioneer VSX-919) wants a regular subwoofer cable.

 

[3chordcharlie]

No, you have a passive sub that needs power from an amplifier, and your new system is designed to work with a powered sub (one with it's own amplifier).

edit - you might be able to feed the subwoofer signal into your old receiver, and powere the sub that way, if you don't mind running both receivers.

 

[Alienwho]

Hmm...darn.

New question then. Is it possible to run both of my monitors through the DVI output on my graphics card, and use the motherboard's onboard HDMI for audio only out to the receiver? I'm trying to set this up and I don't want to connect it with a ghetto green cable to the onboard sound card with a red/white connector to the receiver.


My motherboard has an optical port, maybe that would be easiest? I don't have an optical cord though but I have a bunch of HDMI's.

 

[3chordcharlie]

I would imagine optical, or 6-channel analog from your soundcard will be the way to go here. I'm sure others in here know a whole lot more about computer audio connections.

 

[PM650]

Will your receiver decode hdmi audio streams? If not, optical is the only option, although I don't think anything other than movies will send multi-channel over optical unless your sound card supports DTS Connect and/or Dolby Digital Live (I could be wrong). Although DVI physically supports analog & digital signals, I don't believe it can send different video streams through both simultaneously; I'm not aware of any adapters that would support two monitors even if that was possible, however.

 

[manimal]

What graphics card do you have? A cheap ati card like a 4550 will send audio and video via hdmi and will simplify your setup.

 

[Alienwho]

This is starting to piss me off. I got an optical cable and plugged it in and sure sound comes from all 5 but it's not true surround sound. I can't manually change my speaker settings using software (Via HD Audio Deck in Windows 7).

I was always under the impression that the whole using a receiver with your computer thing was easy. This is a much bigger nightmare than my old klipsch promedia 5.1 setup, plug and play.

btw I have an ASRock 790GXH and 4770. A new videocard would do nothing. I want to use both my DVI ports on the 4770 normal as I am now with dual monitor. I just want to use the motherboard's built in HDMI port for audio, directly to the receiver and speakers.

 

[PM650]

The 790GX doesn't support 7.1 LPCM via HDMI, so you'll be limited to DD/DTS, same (compressed) formats for optical. Try unchecking 'Úse AC3 Encoder' in whatever AC3 filter you're using.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb...wthread.php?p=16493080

promedia 5.1? Analog is always easier, we should all know that by now

 

[Alienwho]

I've come to realize that the software for my VIA onboard audio sucks badly. I can't find anything on AC3 filter.

In other news I ran to best buy and bought this $100 Sony 10" 100watt sub for $65. I told the guy to price match amazons $79.99 price or I'm walking. When he rung it up it came to $65. . Who am I to argue with that.

 

[PM650]

Good job on the sub; I prefer my electronics thoroughly broken & cheap but the monetary result is the same

You might be able to manipulate the filter settings better if you use a codec pack (like k-lite or cole2k) instead of whatever you're using now.