home theater question

[abenak07]

just wondering if you can hook up home theater speakers to a computer or in my case a laptop ?


thanks

 

[abenak07]

anyone ???

 

[mega10169]

Just hook the computers sound card to one of the inputs on the amp and you will be good to go.

 

[Impr3ssiv3]

im guess that his sound card on his laptop(prob cheap integrated) doesnt have the right outputs for an amp. it prob just have a 2 channel headphone port

 

[Jet]

im guess that his sound card on his laptop(prob cheap integrated) doesnt have the right outputs for an amp. it prob just have a 2 channel headphone port

You can use your headphone out connections, but unless you have a good soundcard, it probably isn't worth it.

 

[abenak07]

i just bought a sound blaster pcmcia ZS. another question what about like a reciever so i can use some old acoustic speakers ?

 

[heyman421]

just get a soundcard with spdif output

it can be a cheap one, the digital out basically bypasses the card, and outputs PCM directly out, and you can also bypass the card and output AC3 audio from dvd or ac3 encoded video files directly out to the receiever for dolby digital and dts

this will NOT output computer sounds in surround sound, tho, such as games that are in surround sound, those need to be decoded by the card itself, and will not be properly sent to the external receiever