5.1 surround sound card

[blue..matt]

Ive picked up a home cinema surround sound kit, comes with sub in the center and 4 sat speakers

Now my standalone DVD player isnt 5.1 sound

so spoke to my brother who will have the kit off me

so i need to know of a suitable sound card that will take the 5.1 SIX jacks

qaulity isnt that important, its only for watching DVD and playing the odd game on the PC, so the cheapest poss

[blue..matt]

ive been searching since the last post

loads of sound cards say "5.1 surround sound and home cinema setup" but they all seem to have 5 sockets, i guess 1 is for a mic ?????

why has this system got 6 plugs to fit somewhere ???????

[Shogun]

There is no standalone sound card which will take 5 seperate RCA plugs. It will have to go through an amp which would convert the 3 3.5mm plugs from your pc to 5rca jacks. What 5.1 kit did you pick up? It really should have everything that is needed in the kit.

[Andyr]

It seems that you are confused about what you have purchased.

Would I be correct in saying that you have 6 individual cables (one for each speaker) which would normally be used to plug in the speaker set into a 5.1 amplifier which would recieve a signal from a source such as a DVD player or computer. The Amplifier would then process (decode) this signal and play it down the 6 availible channels.

In order to gain the full signal out of these speakers you would need to purchase a Home cinema amplifier and maybe even need to purchase an upmarket sound card with a digital out (Soundstorm mobo springs to mind) which would be a costly business.

Also do you only have 5 boxes with the system?

[blue..matt]

i have 4 small speakers, and 1 big speaker which looks like a amp (it has all the connections on it)

[blue..matt]

right i have THIS HERE,

[Clstrphbc_donut]

On the spec it says

(Please note for a computer you will require a 3.5 mm jack to RCA converter)

[blue..matt]

On the spec it says

i just thought that was the type of jack ????

i guess i was wrong

anyways, any advice on where to get 1 of these ??????

[blue..matt]

would it be something like this ????





2 x Phono to 3.5mm Stereo

Adapter which allows you to plug 2 seperate phono plugs into a stereo 3.5mm jack socket. This will usually give you seperate left and tight audio outputs.

half way down page

[blue..matt]

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/AD012.html

im guessing this would be it

[blue..matt]

is 3.5 mm the standard soundcard connection ???????

[Shogun]

is 3.5 mm the standard soundcard connection ???????

It is indeed

[blue..matt]

thanks

would the adaptor's work ???????

[blue..matt]

anyone ????????????