Sound Cards that support Home Theater

[Osyris]

Does anyone know of any sound cards that have a single surround output to go to a home theater receiver?&nbsp;&nbsp;The only cards that I seem to find have to outputs one for front and one for rear.&nbsp;&nbsp;I just plan on using my home stereo and would like surround available.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any ideas?<br><br>Osyris

 

[ATCal]

The outputs you are talking about are speaker outputs. What you want is a line out. The Sound Blaster Live full version (Platinum now) has a daughter card with an RCA in and out for input from or output to a receiver. <p>Al<br><a href=mailto: atc-computing@home.com> atc-computing@home.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[fenris]

I Use an SB live to output to my amp. All I did was go to Radio Shack and pick up a cord with a single conector on one to go into the sound card's line out jack and a double end to go to the amp. From the amp it was just regular speaker wire to the speakers.<br><br>In my oppion I think any sound card with a line out jack will work, it is more dependent on your amp. The particular amponly supports two speakers at a time, ie speaker pair a or pair b. If you have an amp that can support more speakers at a time then you are set. I must say plugging the soundcard into a home system kicks computers speakers out of the water.<br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br><br><br> <p> fenris<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Karl Blessing]

Most sound sources are 2 speaker output anyways, and most Stereo receivers, will take a Stereo input, and similate a surround aroudn them, however, the Sblive! platium does have a digital port out(think its just for digital speakers) but like the guy above said, try just line out, or wire it there, you cant magically make a 2 speaker audio turn into a 4 speaker or more, what I have is a Creative Labs Dxr3 decoder card, for my DVD-rom, I can do video out through the decoder, I can also do Ac-3 audio out, a single(thick) AV cable to the back of my AV receiver, and I got 5.1 Channels, this only works if your receiver supports Dolby Digital. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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