Hooking my Stereo up.

I have Audigy 2 Platnium and im trying to hook my stereo to my card. I have the audio cable hooked up but its not working. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

the defenition of "stereo" is nowadays very wide.
but i assume that you're talking about a stereo stereo ...grinning.
So left speaker and right speaker...
Is your stereo one with a amplifier that has a Tape/cassettedeck connection.(like tape rca's (red/white line out and rec-in ? ...
Well in that case do you've 2 cables of the next type:
stereo (3-pole) 3.5mm minijack on one side of the cable , and 2 (a white and red) rca connectors on the otherside of the cable.
Good go on.
Now look at the manual of the soundcard to discover the right minijacks connection of the back of your soundcard. You need the line out and the line-in.
step = Connect a wire from Line-out to the tape in(play) of your amplifier(stereo).
(actually you can use any line-input(cd/tape/tuner) exept the Phono(phono is preamped so only for phono)
step 2 = Connect a wire from Line-in to the tape out(recording)of your amplifier(stereo).
(actually you can use any line-output(tape rec out/tape rec out2/Equalizer/etc.)
So if you connect your pc to stereo see pc as a tape/cassette deck, easyer to understand(analog recording/playing device), and in your situation , don't forget to configure the creative speakersetup as only stereo analog out, so no dolby or surround and so , otherwise you get strange effects on your 2 channel stereo system)
good luck, so be sure you get those 2x 3.5mmstereojack -> 2xrca cables.
and you only use the 3-pole minijack in stereo(line out and line in on the soundcard, with dolby decoding enabled on the soundcard you must use 4-pole minijacks on line out 2 and 3.Message Edited by www_96KHz_tk on 05-29-2005 0:46 PM

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