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Senior Member
Connect my PC to my AV receiver (and LCD TV)
Having an awful time trying to figure out how to connect audio from the computer to my AV Receiver.
First off: the equipment
Denon AVR-2807
Asus A7V8X (no spdif port)
I can get the video to the LCD TV via a DVI-HDMI cord. If you know what I'm talking about, you know this does not carry audio.
How can I get the audio to the receiver?? I want the sound out of the 5.1 speakers, not the itty bitty things that the TV sports.
Thanks
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Senior Member
I am looking at your manual. You have one onboard line out jack. Its the green (middle) one. You need a stereo y adapter as pictured assuming RCA jacks are what the receiver requires. This will give you a left/right channel and the receiver will take care of the rest. They can be purchased at Radio Shack/Fry's/Best Buy/ect.
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Global Moderator
Steve's way is quiick and will work provided you can match one of the analog inputs to the HDMI-DVI video input, but if you wanted to get fancier:
Does your motherboard have on board audio? If so are you using that for audio or a PCI(e) sound card. If a sound card, which one?
There's no shortage of audio inputs on the receiver I note: http://usa.denon.com/DocumentMaster/...07LitFinal.pdf
11 x analog stereo
1 x analog 8 channel
5 x optical digital (assignable)
2 x coaxial digital (assignable)
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Senior Member
Been a while since I was inside it but I believe it had SB Live card. I'd have to check.
After posting this, I think that the cpu is going to be insufficent to power the sim to take advantage of the TV though. It's only an XP2400. It'll get bogged down running the graphics that the TV deserves. IN ANY CASE, the extra few pennies for the adapter Steve suggests is worth a shot. No great loss if the overall result isn't satisfactory.
This should do the trick

Going to start looking at a cheap laptop or building a barebones desktop that can run the sim full eye candy.
Thanks.
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Senior Member
Been a while since I was inside it but I believe it had SB Live card. I'd have to check.
After posting this, I think that the cpu is going to be insufficent to power the sim to take advantage of the TV though. It's only an XP2400. It'll get bogged down running the graphics that the TV deserves. IN ANY CASE, the extra few pennies for the adapter Steve suggests is worth a shot. No great loss if the overall result isn't satisfactory.
Going to start looking at a cheap laptop or building a barebones desktop that can run the sim full eye candy.
Thanks.
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Senior Member
If you really want Surround, get a decent Audio card like the Asus Xonar D1 or D2 and connect to the AV Amplifier through an optical (Toslink) cable.
The SB Live! is ancient and never was a good audio card to begin with.
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Junior Member
How can I get the audio to the receiver?? I want the sound out of the 5.1 speakers, not the itty bitty things that the TV sports.
Thanks