Topic: 2.1 Speaker System (Read 79 times)

Mr Ed · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2005, 12:48:00 PM »

QUOTE(TB_88 @ Aug 6 2005, 04:20 AM)

I think you are right with that you need another adaptor because the input those 2.1 system has is the same as the one in the picture!?

Laugh Out Loud · « **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2005, 09:10:00 PM »

Wow, im amazed that this thread is still going!

It worked guys, thanks for the help.

Ive connected it excatly like this:

http://img108.** Pic...1speaker3oz.jpg

Laugh Out Loud · « **Reply #17 on:** August 06, 2005, 09:35:00 PM »

Synops · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2005, 02:01:00 PM »

lol you mades that pic.

senormoll · « **Reply #19 on:** August 29, 2005, 09:07:00 PM »

Mr Ed · « **Reply #20 on:** August 29, 2005, 10:39:00 PM »

QUOTE(senormoll @ Aug 29 2005, 09:18 PM)

Hopefully this is the tough one that some of you thought you were debating...I have a 5.1 digital surround sound system for my PC which says it will work for an xbox with the proper adapters. So far I've been to Radioshack and EBGames and neither of them know what the hell they're talking about. The speakers plug into the sub with standard stereo connections, but the front right speaker plugs into the sound card of my PC with the regular computer jacks. I have a diagram drawn but I don't have any websites i can upload it to so I can post it. If you think the diagram would help just send me your email and Ill send it to you, but its really just a simple stick figure drawing of what I just said.

The Zep Man · « **Reply #21 on:** August 30, 2005, 04:08:00 AM »

QUOTE(Mr Ed @ Aug 30 2005, 06:50 AM)

I can't believe they still sell speakers that don't include a DTS encoder and don't take optical digital audio connections.

grimlock · « **Reply #22 on:** August 30, 2005, 07:08:00 PM »

QUOTE

is there any adapter I could use to get the xbox into the sound card's headphone jack or any other port on my computer

If your sound card has an SPDIF-in port, you can route the digital audio out of the xbox there.
Of course you will need the appropriate cabling.
1. If the sound card has optical-in, use the optical audio out of the xbox.
2. If the sound card has mini jack or RCA SPDIF-in, you will need to make an optical to electrical converter. (either externally, or mod your box to have coaxial digital audio out).

For the second half of your question, you really need to be more specific (what type of cable adapter you mean). Generally you can display the video of the xbox on a PC monitor, either with a VGA adapter (which I assume you don't have) or if your computer has some sort of video-in port (usually composite)

senormoll · « **Reply #23 on:** August 30, 2005, 07:25:00 PM »

yea i mean i don't know all the technical names for these ports, the tv tuner card has a jack so that I can screw a tv cable into it, and my xbox has a cord that allows you to plug it into the back of a tv for televisions without the yellow, red and white A/V jacks. Also, the tuner has a jack for S/Video, which may or may not matter.

As for my sound card, it only has one available jack left, and its for headphones

Mr Ed · « **Reply #24 on:** August 31, 2005, 08:22:00 PM »

QUOTE(senormoll @ Aug 30 2005, 04:16 PM)

Thanks Mr. Ed, but I'm curious...since my sound card is a natural decoder (and not $150), is there any adapter I could use to get the xbox into the sound card's headphone jack or any other port on my computer.

If your soundcard really includes a DTS encoder on silicon, it should also include an optical input port, which will do what you want.

grimlock · « **Reply #25 on:** September 13, 2005, 02:03:00 PM »

I hope you understand that this is *not* digital surround and has nothing to do with the DD 5.1 output the xbox is capable of...
What it does, is feed the 2 channel stereo signal in a way that can be processed by compatible PC speaker systems, creating a pseudo-surround (like Dolby ProLogic, for example)

Devedander · « **Reply #26 on:** September 13, 2005, 02:21:00 PM »

QUOTE(BboyDubC @ Sep 13 2005, 09:39 PM)

I actually found the ultimate solution for a 5.1 surround system (someone on the IGN boards helped me out, because I was looking for it for myself), that only costs a few bucks. Made by logitech, this is what you need:

deacon187 · « **Reply #27 on:** September 13, 2005, 04:48:00 PM »

i gotta say thats a neat little adapter and i think ill buy one just to have laying around incase of an emergency, but yeah it definatly cant reproduce a true surround affect, it probably splits the left into left front and left rear and the right into right front and right rear and combines them both into the sub with the sub actually produceing mid and high as well as the other 4 speakers producing bass

so all 5 speakers will probably produce sub mid and high frequencies and the sub will actually act more like the center channel speaker, you will still get your left and right but i dought you'd get front and rear and right and left, you could probably hook up your speakers to front and rear instead of right and left but then it would be like left=front right =rear type of thing

but it would be a nice adapter to have in the drawer

Mr Ed · « **Reply #28 on:** September 14, 2005, 09:24:00 AM »

That won't give you surround sound. You'd need an adapter that took an optical cable, not left/right RCA cables.

Even it it was attempting to decode the analog surround, it would need a power source, which it obviously doesn't have, so you are only getting 2 channel sound there.

Anyway, as I said before, this is the adapter you need to actually get surround sound out of those speakers:

http://www.creative....series/decoder/

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