Posted by siamese plantpot
im trying to use my hifi as speakers for the pc but am not sure what cables to use. the player has a md/video play function which i am sure can be used to play the music from a pc but i am not sure what cabl;es to use to connect from a pc and where im putting them in a pc. the system is a sony cmt-cp11.
thanks, mike
Posted by p900 lover
Iv done this. You need to have:
A Aux input on ur hifi
Then buy a cable not sure what it is its just a standard 3.5mm jack at 1 end and a black and red at the other.
Then conect the 3.5mm jack to the green hole at the back fo the PC and the red and black to the hifi.
Then when u want to listen to music make sure ur hifi is set to the Aux option
Posted by jcwhite_uk
The lead is a 3.5mm stereo jack to twin phono lead. The phono ends can be red and black or red and white.
Posted by p900 lover
Thanks jcwhite_uk for clearing that up
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
yep jc has it right. I too am thinking about doing a similar thing, its either that or sell my 200w sony system...
What I want to to is: hook up my xbox thorugh my sound system along with my tvtuner, and then connect both to my new monitor o and then connect my pc up to the sound system, it effectivly means I need 6 phono inputs which I dont have, any suggestions for a input thingy?
Posted by leeboy13
i do this but i must warn you, you get alot of distorted signals.... (it crackles alot) i kdont personally think its all that good for your system... unless you buy a live drive for a soundblaster card or something...... that way you could hook up optical or with a coaxial cable.....
Posted by siamese plantpot
cheers, cable is hopefully on its way from a mates work now =]
will let you know if it all goes well and what its like for crackling etc
mike
Posted by leeboy13
it maybe soemthing i have setup wrong, but i get a lot of it mate....
Fingers crossed you wont
Posted by siamese plantpot
no crackling, there was at first but it just stopped =]
only problem now is only going to one speaker. anyone know where to get a cheap apapter, need to be stereo, 2 male, one female jack splitter. everywhere i look has the other way around...
mike
Posted by leeboy13
i aint sure but id check first that your sound out up issnt setup for mono - and it setup for stereo out put..... also if teh connections are not totally connected it will only come through one channel too.....
Posted by siamese plantpot
yes the problem is that there is one socket for each speaker yet the cable has wire for stereo. is there any way to set the pc to put stereo sound through one socket?
Posted by leeboy13
do you mean the one 3.5mm jack that links to your pc?
because a 2.5mm jack (only one) provides a two channel output (look closely at the 3.5mm jack it has two halfs and top and bottom... anyway, go into sound in your control panel and there should be a setting there for your poutput..... one speaker, two speakers, 5 speakers etc...... i if im correct i think... its in advanced i think in teh audio tab......
Posted by siamese plantpot
yea i do mean that, the problem im seeing is that the pc speakers i was using before have one green port at the top that led to the the speaker with volume controls etc on it and a pink one to the other. the green port is above the pink one on the back of the pc. i dont know if that tells you anything?
iv now set the sound up to surround sound though which is all good!
mike
Posted by leeboy13
teh pink is for a microphone i think mate.... the green is for your sound (speakers)
glad it seems to be working, nice one matey
Posted by siamese plantpot
thanks a lot leeboy =]]
and ill just pretend the comment about pink never happened
mike