I bought an external sound card for my laptop so I can enjoy DVDs better. It has a normal headphone jack, and I was hoping that I can use my existing jack-to-rca cable to deliver it to my home theater system. Does it take 5.1 sound with it, or will it be just simple 2.0 or 2.1 that my system may or may not deliver with it's Dolby standards?
2007-05-04 04:05:52 · 7 answers · asked by attila_ujvari 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
You bought a External Sound card, first make sure that it supports 5.1 surround output.
If it supports, three stereo Sockets will be provided with it.
Check it.
You need to configure the driver settings of that sound card so that it outputs 5.1 channels all togather 6 channels are required. three stereo sockets acts as these 6 channel outputs.
I dont know what colored sockets are used there...
But the standard colors are...
Green: Front speakers
Blue: Rear Speakers
Brown: Center and subwoofer.
...Now use three Stereo jack to RCA cablels and connect your Surround sound system to the external sound card as per the colors specified above.
Yes U can use three headphone stereo jack to RCA convertors.
Thats it...!
2007-05-04 04:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gayatri Kumar 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, Al is correct. Since you've got a soldering iron, you probably also have a multimeter to check which wire goes to which part of the miniplug. I'm hopelessly cheap, but I'd still walk over to Targét and buy a miniplug to RCA adapter cable. Can't be more than $2-3. (Actually I'd go in my junk drawer, I've probably got a spare or two) FWIW, my CD's, tapes, and LP's are all in boxes in a back room of the basement. The line-out of my 'puter is always hooked up to the stereo down in the man-cave.
2016-05-20 04:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it best to read the manual of your sound card it should explain to you if this is possible or not. Even call there customer service hotline and find out from one of there techs.
Personally though once you plug anything related to headphone jacks it changes the frequency to 2 channel.
Why not just get a dvd burner and watch them on your TV.
2007-05-04 10:33:34 · answer #3 · answered by Livinrawguy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To a standard headphone no. but to a multi element set yes.
Essentially these replicate the surround effect into a few smaller drivers to localize sound just before it hits the ear.
Note you will need to input a digital source into the specialized decoder that is connected to any set. This could be any digital format but definitely not 2 channel audio RCA's.
2007-05-04 05:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cant realistically produce 5 channels plus a sub in a set of two channel/speaker headphones. A SRS processor outputs each channel to its own amp and speaker, that's what creates SRS effect, the speakers locations simulate the spatial image.
SRS stereo headphones use a stereo imaging processor to simulate some of the SRS experience, but the distances from the sound source has to be emulated inside the 2 speaker environment, without the low-frequency subs assistance..
2007-05-04 04:35:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
5.1 Headphone
2016-12-10 13:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible 'cause headphone jacks carry only stereo audio not 5.1 surround thus you cant get surround audio by using those connectors.
2007-05-04 04:27:37 · answer #7 · answered by Dev 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋