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Z-560 in a Home Theater?

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przero

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Can I use my Z-560's in a Home Theater? Can I connect both my A/V receiver and my computer to play thru the 560's? If so, how?
 
It my particular case "Home Theater" is an oxymoron. I realize the quality won't be great, but it will be as good as the MP3's i listen to while I work on my computer. I am looking to simplifying my living room. Two sets of speakers (the other a set of Advent floor models) ain't getting it. Don't watch many movies and Andy and Barney will sound fine. The races on Sunday will be fine too (W/O the Yugo's of course). Now will it work?
 
Originally posted by: przero
Can I use my Z-560's in a Home Theater? Can I connect both my A/V receiver and my computer to play thru the 560's? If so, how?
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argh, no matter how much i'd NEVER do that, buy a mini 1/8" jack to dual RCA plug, plug the RCA side into the receiver...

wait, i'm not sure how the Z560s are like, but just mess around with those mini 1/8" jacks to dual RCA plugs, and you should come up with a combination, maybe you'll need a mini 1/8" splitter.. *argh my ears are hurting again*
 
Man you guys are beating me up here! So can I buy some home speakers and run my computer thru the A/V receiver?
 
Originally posted by: przero
Man you guys are beating me up here! So can I buy some home speakers and run my computer thru the A/V receiver?
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😛 definitely, i do the same thing. I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, which has 2 outs (versajack and line-out). The VersaJack is set to digital out, which my speakers are running, and the lineout i used a mini-plug (1/8" whatever the hell those are called) to dual-RCA, hooked it up to an input in my AV Receiver, and right now I'm listening to mp3's on my HT setup instead of my computer speakers.

Edit: Although, it is kinda weird all the sound coming from the right of me...
 
Originally posted by: przero
Man you guys are beating me up here! So can I buy some home speakers and run my computer thru the A/V receiver?
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Yes. I did that for a long time.

Take a cable with a 1/8" headphone jack on one end and dual RCA's on the other, run it from the PC's line out into one of the AVR's RCA Inputs.
 
przero

sounds like an excellent idea...in fact i had thought about gettin rid of my huge rack system, although these cant compete with my rack, i too want simplicity at a fair price and they will fit the bill.
 
my dad and i got a free sample of klipsh promedia 5.1 's at his work. so is it a bad idea to hook this up to our 56" sony hdtv (only has the stock speaker) or not a bad idea.
 
Originally posted by: przero
I'm gonna' try it. I can always hook the big boys back up!
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Yes you can do it and it will sounds fine. You won't get the same quality as a full set of speakers, but it'll sound OK.
 
Originally posted by: hans007
my dad and i got a free sample of klipsh promedia 5.1 's at his work. so is it a bad idea to hook this up to our 56" sony hdtv (only has the stock speaker) or not a bad idea.
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better than stock speakers, but a good JBL set at Costco or Sams would make it sound even better, and a step up from that, Energy Take system + Denon/Onkyo receiver will be probably the best thing you can get for ~$1000
 
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