hex21cc Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 What would be needed to hook up a sblive 5.1 to a home theater receiver? I'm wondering what kind of cables and where all the connections would be made. Thanks for any help or links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rol1 Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 You need one of the RCA digital audio(brown) cable, 2 stereo minijack to L&R RCA, 3 if you want to take stereo into your live card. Run the brown digital cable from the live's s/pdif out to the digital in on your receiver. If you don't have a s/pdif on your live you will want one. They sell digital in/out brackets if ness. The digital pass thru gives you the best AC3 and DTS surround, your receiver does them better. Use the minijack to RCA adapters to connect the front speakers to the left and right analog in on the receiver. Use the mixer's balance to check left and right. Hook the rear the same way. If you are careful with your speaker placement you'll have surround gaming effects thru the analog inputs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hex21cc Posted April 1, 2001 Author Share Posted April 1, 2001 what about using a acoustic edge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rol1 Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 I forget, does the AE have the s/pdif on the basic card or do you have to buy a daughter-card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIV Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 Ok, ya talkin' to DA man on the subject of the AE now I have a Yamaha HTR 5250 reciever, and in my setup, I have each of the analog outputs of the AE (mains, rears, centre/sub), going to the external decoder inputs on my reciever. If you want to connect the SPDIF to the reciever (altho the analog IS quite good), just hook it up from the AE's SPDIF out to the reciever's DVD in, and set it up, and BINGO! As for the SB Live 5.1, no can help there, since I'm not familiar with it's connection types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rol1 Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 Some of the creative live cards make you buy the daughter cards for s/pdif out. Do you use the S/pdif for DD and DTS pass-thru to your receiver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIV Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 Yep! Altho, I must admit, the difference between using the SPDIF and the Analog isn't that great, so I keep it on analog all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluegun Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 For the sblive 5.1 you need a special adapter that hoontech (sp) makes, because the voltages are all wierd and could fry your reciever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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