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Registered: April 14, 2007 | Posts: 415 |
| Posted: | | | | Is Creative saying that they can't convert a digital input to analogue outputs? (this is what a receiver does)
A stand-alone receiver tends to be pricey, but it would work. You could connect the speakers directly to the receiver, or via the powered sub (amplifier). You may have to get some adapters or attach new connectors, depending on what you have and what you need.
PS3--D-->Receiver--A-->Sub--A-->Speakers PC----A/D----^
What you wanted: PS3--D-->PC--A-->Sub--A-->Speakers
I'm not familiar with the latest crop of sound cards, but it seems strange that this would not be possible. |
| Registered: June 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,208 |
| Posted: | | | | Thanks for your reply Here are the last few emails from creative: Quote: With regards to your inquiry, you may connect your PS3 to the sound card through optical cable. However, the newer batch of Sound Blaster sound cards do not come with built-in decoder. Therefore it will not do any decoding that is required for DVD playback.
For your information, your current sound card Audigy 2 ZS comes with built-in decoder,but it does not come with any optical input port. Therefore I would suggest you to look for Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Upgrade Kit. Is is a 5.25-inch drive bay module extends the connectivity and functionality of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. The I/O drive will come with optical and coaxial digital I/O that will allow you to connect your PS3 to the sound card.
From this it would seem possible that it would work. These kits are <£40 on ebay but before I bought I asked them to confirm that if I played a Blu-ray movie or game on the PS3 the 5.1 channels would be retained. I got this back: Quote: With regards to your inquiry, Blu-ray movie and games normally comes with encoding like Dolby Digital or DTS. However, optical signal only outputs one signal.Therefore, the decoding to multiple channels or the effects will be done to your optical speakers. Therefore, you need to check with your optical speaker manufacturer whether your speakers can do so. This response completely contradicts the previous one! As stated earlier my Audigy 2 ZS isn't on their site anymore but the notebook version is and the specs state that that it supports DD and DTS... I don't think the person writing this last response even read any of the previous correspondence because I already stated they were my speaker's manufacturer For obvious reasons I'd rather spend £40 on that kit than £400 on a receiver but then again the receiver would support the new HD sound formats and would future proof me for a while (I'm quessing there wouldn't be any problem playing the HD formats through my speakers?) This is the receiver I've been looking at: ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/marell/onkyo606rear-1.jpg) Looking at those connections is there anything to make you think it wouldn't work? A guy on another forum said that I may need to add some resistors to the speaker connections to avoid blowing the speakers or have the reciever at a very low volume. Thanks to all who have taken the time to post so far, this thread is getting a little lengthy ![](/images/emoticons/sweating.gif) | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 315 |
| Posted: | | | | The 606 is a very good all-around receiver, and one of the best price/quality relation bets on the market at the moment. | | | With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. |
| Registered: April 14, 2007 | Posts: 415 |
| Posted: | | | | That second email sounds like the guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I have never heard of an "optical speaker". It would have to have its own decoder and amplifier! However, I did find this post on a forum, which sounds kinda scary: "I am currently routing bitstream DTS from my PS3 to my Audigy 2 ZS SPDIF IN via optical cable - the Audigy can decode this signal to my 5.1 speakers.... but unfortunately this adds about a 50ms delay that ruins lip sync." Dedicated hardware may be the way to go. Hmm.. the 606 doesn't appear to have 5.1/7.1 pre-outs. This just means that you have to connect it directly to the speakers. There is a subwoofer pre-out for the sub. The Onkyo probably has better amplifiers anyway I believe you'll need to connect the PS3 to the receiver via HDMI to get 7.1 channels, and you must set the PS3 to output in Linear PCM 7.1. The PS3 will not output DTS-MA and DD TrueHD in bitstream (so that your receiver decodes it), it only does the decoding internally. |
| Registered: June 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,208 |
| Posted: | | | | Yeah from what I've gleamed of various forums I'd have to probably add a few resistors to the speaker connections on the 606 to prevent against blowing the speakers. However a guy on AVS forums recommended the Onkyo TX-SR705 as it has pre amp outputs for all 7.1 channels or the Yamaha DSPAX763 which is fairly cheaper I'm leaning towards a seperate receiver atm as it would support the new HD sound formats and provide some future proofing. EDIT (13/07/08): Ended up going for the Onkyo 705, got it all wired up to the pre-outs and all seems fine. Although I've yet to watch a movie with it. EDIT (19/01/09): Did a bit of re-wiring recently, I now have the speakers being powered directly by the Onkyo with only the sub connected to a pre-out...sounds much better! ![](/images/emoticons/thumbup.gif) And no blown speakers in sight ![](/images/emoticons/w00t.gif) | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
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