G4 + home theater speakers

Just built a sunroom. I wired the room for speakers. I'm thinking I'd like to take a G4-450 and use as a music center (iTunes) and Sirius Satellite to entertain. Any recommendations on a receiver? Do I connect to a receiver through the headphone jack? Or are there receivers/amps out there that have USB or Firewire connections?

Any receiver with firewire that I've seen are over $1000. Use the headphone out using a stereo-mini to RCA (male) and use any input on any brand receiver.

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How to connect Ipad Mini to external home theater speakers

Hi,
Recently i bought a new ipad mini, now i want to know how can i connect my Ipad Mini to external home theater speakers (Sony). Please let me know what type of hardware and steps i have to use.
Thanks in advance.

You should be able to use a 3.5mm plug cable to connect iPad to the AUX input of your sound system.
Make sure you set the volume to about 5% to 10% on you iPad.
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Help! Suddenly no sound from home theater speakers!

I bought a Sony KDL 46W5100 TV and the BDVE300 Home theater system at BB. I have always had these two hooked up directly to
each other with an HDMI cable and the digital optical cord. There are no other components involved.
We have always had surround sound to the HT speakers when the television speakers are set to 'audio system'
II am in NO WAY an audio/video expert, but I've had to mess with the settings here and there
after one of the kids reset something and I've always been
able to return the system to proper operation.
I am not sure what happened this time, but I cannot get the home theater speakers to give me any sound when in TV mode or
the BD/DVD mode. Theater mode does nothing for the sound either. I know the speakers are connected properly as they work during the 'test' and also when using the FM radio. I also know I am not on 'mute'
I do get video when playing a DVD or blu ray but no sound. I borrowed a BVD E770W, hooked it up and ended up with the same result.
This would lead me to believe that I have some rogue setting in my TV or maybe my HDMI cable is bad? I'm not sure about the
cable as I still have video through it.
I've re-read all my manuals, searched the forums online and I found nothing
Can anyone give me some advice here?
My family would greatly apperciate it

Try unplugging the power cord to TV and Surround receiver for 15-20 minutes. Plug back in and retry. If test tone & tuner have sound, your receiver is working. This will reset your data lines and hopefully restore operation. If not, and the DVD & TV sound hookup is coming thru the TV, the firmware in the TV may need to be updated found here:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=KDL46W5100&LOC=3&session_id=a9b2a73977d8271de2747...
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X-fi card and Home theater Speakers can I get Game sounds EAX e

Ok after spending hours on this forum and realizing that I just spend $200 on a card to hook up my computer to my home theater to play games on my 37 LCD I find out that I can not get any of the sound card gaming features while using my $50 optical cable. Ok now that that is off my chest.
Is it posible to run now 3 sets of wires to my Pioneer VSX D4 reciever into the Dolby 5. inputs to get the EAX 2. features of the sound card. I just want to have my rear channels working. Please e-mail me if you have the cure for this delema. Thanks in advance.
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thomase wrote:
If your receiver has 6-channel inputs, you can connect the soundcard outputs directly to it. Of course you need cables which split a stereo connector into two RCA connectors.
Most standard home theatre kits only come with AUX or Digital inputs. Only "high end" amps tend to have the individual speaker inputs unfortunately.
thomase wrote:
Another alternati've is to buy this:
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=&subcategory=207&product=49Me ssage Edited by thomase on -30-2005 02:5 AM
Unfortunately, this takes the original poster's cost to $350 + cables. That's ALOT of money to pay just for EAX 4.0.
Creative are ripping you off. The technology in the Home Theatre Connect kit can be squeezed on to a single microchip, and is already available on most onboard soundcards, and the Diamond range of soundcards:
http://www.diamondmm.com/xtremesound.php
Judging by the number of people in this forum who have asked about the digital output expecting it to provide a Dolby signal, I can only assume that the reason Creative did not implement this feature on their brand new range of X-Fi soundcards was so they could milk a bit more money out of their customers by forcing them to buy a separate box to convert their analog signal into a proper Dolby Digital signal.

How to set up connection for directv receiver, TV, and home theater system?

Can some one please show me the CORRECT way to connect my Directv receiver (it has no HDMI), Panasonic Viera HDTV (has 3 HDMIs) and my Samsung home theater HT-Z510 (has 1 HDMI)? The second question is with the set up that you advise, can I play the TV sound through my home theater speakers? and How do I do that each time I want to listen the TV sound through my home theater speakers? I am new and confused about all this so please provide or explain step by step please. Thanks in advance.

Making sense of your connections on a message board is never easy. Hopefully you can piece this information together.
Direct TV box to Panasonic TV using S-video cable....assuming it's standard definition. Component video if the box is HD. Run standard stereo RCA cables to the appropriate input for sound threw the TV speakers.
Your Panasonic TV will have a set of stereo(left/white,right/red) outputs. Run cable from that output into the same inputs on the Samsung surround unit. Use the sound units effects to acheive simulated surround. This is assuming you have no digital outputs on your box. If you do, you'll be able to get 5.1 when available using a digital connection.
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Connecting to a Home Theater receiver

I am thinking about buying a mini to use with my home theater system. I want to use iTunes to play through my audio receiver. I have a G5 and hooked it up through the media receiver for my 42" plasma. I got video and audio but it only plays audio through my TV speakers. Can I hook up the mini to my audio receiver so it will play through home theater speakers?

yes. I need an AV switch. You can find one @ WalMart for ~$20.

Home theater connectivity, mode opti

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So... a while buy I purchased X-Fi Fatalty... and up until a while ago i've ran it on few creative speaker sets as well as klipsch... everything worked fine except the speakers "sucked" if you will.
so i upgraded my stuff to a
-Denon AVR-706 amplifier
-Paradigm Cinema 70 home theater package (audiophile quality at low price!)
now... i connect these to my x-fi through analog inputs because we all know digital won't do real time encoding of 5. games. here comes the problem. i used to listen to my 2 channel music in audio creation mode where i CLONED 2 front speakers to my 2 rear speakers. this gave me my stereo x2 effect whithout the degrading quality of CMSS. well you see when you go amp/home theater speakers with x-fi's implementation of bass settings you NEED to have the bass redirection turned on as well as the +5Hz boost. The problem is that there is NO bass redirection settings in audio creation mode and there's no way that i know of to clone my fronts to rears in entertainment mode. i don't want cmss upmixing because i dont believe it's cloning... i believe it's upmixig regardless of the 2 modes selected. Does ANYONE know how to clone these whether at the driver level or through a plugin (i use WMP on Vista Ultimate x64 SP)?
the other thing is.... maybe it's my amp but in regards to local radio reception x-fi volume needs to be cranked WAY up (75%) on the PC side to match the level of other components in the setup... does this thing go into some sort of a low volume mode? I'm not pointing fingers here for this one but maybe you guys know something I dont
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Open Command Prompt and select run as Administrator.
In the command prompt windows type in powercfg -devicequery wake_armed and press the enter key to find out
which device causes the problem.
You may need to perform a
Clean Boot
A Hot-Fix is also available.Go through the following article:
You cannot make a computer that is running Windows 7 shut down or sleep
S.Sengupta, Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP
S.Sengupta;
Thanks for the quick reply. I forgot to include that SP1
IS installed. So I don,t think the hotfix is applicable.
Am I wrong?
power config results:
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HID COMPLIANT mouse <006>
HID Compliant mouse <014>
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
It appears that the list includes all of the various wireless devices that are used at various times to interface with the PC, as well as the network.
But none of these devices has changed.
Mike
On [PC A]:
Update: Clean Boot will only enter sleep mode for 2-3 seconds ... then restarts
Update 2: Uninstalled Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2923545) ...
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Next Step: Removed media location on this PC [PC A] from [PC B] in Media Center.
RESULT: Now this PC [PC A]Sleeps
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Apple TV Optical Soundoutput not working with Sony Home Theater System

I just bought a new apple tv. The setup was pretty simple, with the exception that I cannot get the optical audio output to work with my Sony home theater.
If I switch tha optical sound cable from the apple tv to the cable tv converter box I get sound fine in the sound system, so I know the sound system works fine and is setup to take input thru the optical cable.
Any one experiencing the same problem?

hey buddy,
How old is your Sony receiver? You have to be careful here because receivers that were made about 2 years ago, a lot of the lower range one only does HDMI pass-through. This means that your receiver only passes both the video and audio signal onto the end points, i.e takes the signal from your apple TV and outputs them onto your TV. It does not split the video and audio stream and send the audio to your home theater speakers. So make sure you plug your hdmi and optical out into the same set of input ports. On most Sony receivers, this device is under the Blue Ray class of input, where it takes video from the hdmi and the audio from the optical. If you have them on two separate class, say, HDMI to the DVD in, and optical in to the blue ray, then certainly when you set your receiver to DVD, you get video and audio on your TV speakers. And when you set your receiver to blue ray, you only get audio but not video.

Dolby Home Theater

I was wondering if anyone has any idea on how to get the same sound quality in Linux as I do in windows. I have an Acer Aspire 3830TG TimelineX laptop, everything is working, including sound. The main annoyance I have is that if I am in windows, the sound out of the integrated speakers are 100x better than what works with ALSA in Linux. I know there are a lot of laptops that have the "Professionally Tuned" Dolby Home theater speakers ingratiating now, and was wondering if anyone has gotten the sound quality better than what ALSA will provide.

For ALSA, see if this helps:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … r_clipping
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … _Equalizer
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Could the Panasonic 5.1 3D Home Theater System Blu-ray Disc Player be used as speakers on a windows

Could a
Panasonic - 5.1 3D Home Theater System - 600 W RMS - Blu-ray Disc Player be used as only speakers on a windows 8.1 desktop? And if so would it use bluetooth?

Hello coltyn-
Based on the product description, it certainly looks like it may be able to be used as the speakers for your desktop set up. Most likely you will need to buy some additional materials. Unfortunately, I’m not an expert on this, so I would either recommend waiting to see if one of our community members comments on this or you can check with the experts at your local Best Buy store.
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Calibrating the speakers for a Home Theater sys

I started a similar thread in the PCMCIA forum but there seems to be a lot more traffic here... The question is: how do you deal with speaker calibration when your card is connected to a Home Theater system?
If you calibrate the speakers with the card, don't you send a "modified" source into your HT? And then, if you calibrate the speakers again in the HT system, don't you end up compounding the effect?
In other words, the question could be: How do you make the card appear "neutral" to the HT system, like a DVD player would?
Thanks!

Aha; just before I go, I have just found the following in one of the Creative sticky messages at the top of the forum (Digital Connections, SPDIF and Dolby Digital Info ) which explains the digital connection stuff much better than I did; confirms that for dvd movies, using the digital out bypasses the card's internal meddling. Still ask Letropaks or Keene re the correct cable however. This solves your movie problem, outputting the same signal as a DVD player would to your amp, with minimal loss of signal quality. So get ready to throw away those nasty analogue cables...


Movies wth Dolby Digital (AC3) & DTS
Movies on DVD often use encoded audio in the form of Dolby Digital (AC3) or DTS. This means that all 6 channels are compressed into a single stream of digital data. A decoder is required to extract the channels and send the sound to the correct speakers. There are three ways to do this.


) Pass the AC3/DTS signal to a external decoder.

This is where your optical/coax connection is used. To go down this route, you must first have a set of speakers or a decoder that supports Dolby Digital. In your DVD software, select 'SPDIF' as the audio output method and 'SPDIF Pass-through' in your soundcard options. What this does is tells both the software and soundcard to leave the audio from the DVD in compressed form and send it straight through the digital outputs. Your digital speakers/receiver will do all the decoding to give you full surround sound. Please note that this is the only way to get 6 channels through an optical/coax cable.

How can i connect macbook to sony dvd home theater (model no. TZ-210) to take sound from speakers while watching movie on macbook

here i m attaching the rear view of my dvd home theater system.
if it can attach then plz tell me the type of cable to be used.

Hi......from the MacBook end (3.5mm headphone jack) to (RCA red & white) audio input connections on TZ 210......3.5mm to RCA cable

Help on purchasing a Home Theater System...

Hi everyone,
I just bought a new HDTV and I am now looking into getting a good Home Theater System, since as I'm sure you all know, the speakers on my TV are pretty pathetic.
But in all honestly, I really don't know much at all about speakers and home theater systems, so that's why I'm here.
I hear that most home theater systems come with DVD and Bluray players, but I don't need either of those, since my ps3 and 360 give me 2 DVD players and a Bluray player already.
I am really looking to spend less than 400 bucks, or around that area if possible.
I also have one question: My HDTV only has 2 HDMI ports and one Component port and since I am using both of those (HDMI is being used for the cable and ps3 and component is used for my 360) I am wondering if there is some other way of connecting the Home Theater System?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Solved!
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paulmohr wrote:
Ok after looking at the manual for that reciever this is what I come up with.
One HDMI cable running from your PS3 to the reciever (BD in would be my choice)
One HDMI cable running from your Cable box to the receiver (dvd in would by my choice)
Now for you Xbox 360 you said you have the component cables for it, from what I can tell you can also get an HDMI connector as well. What you choose is up to you but this is how it would work.
Xbox with component cables:
Since the receiver doesn't have component swtiching you would have to hook the xbox up to your tv with the component cables ( the way it is now).
Then run an optical audio cable from the xbox to the receiver SAT optical in.
If you get the HDMI cable most likely you would just run the HDMI cable from the Xbox to the receiver like the other components. If you went this route I would hook the xbox to the dvd hdmi in and the cable box to the SAT hdmi in though. Honestly it doesn't matter but it just might be less confusing that way.
Then you would need on optical cable running from the TV out to the TV in on the reciever. If you never watch regular tv you don't need this since the sound will come from your cable box anyway. But if you also have the tv hooked up to an antenna or something this will send the sound to the receiver.
And one HDMI cable running from the Receiver out to on the HDMI inputs on the tv. This is what will carry all of the signals going into your receiver to your tv.
And then the speakers connections which should be described in the instructions for the receiver. Just make sure the polarity is right when you connect them.
This configuration will let you control most or all of the components through the receiver since it switches most of them. Just choose the correct input and the tv will display it.
Okay, so according to that, I would need 4 HDMI cables to my HDTV, which would be impossible.... Unfortunately, my new HDTV only has 2 HDMI porsts, so is there a way to get around that issue? If I use HDMI for the ps3 and HD cable box, then is there a way to hook everything else up (including the reciever) without HDMI?
Thanks in advance.

How do I connect the Apple TV to the home theater if the optical audio port is in use

I had an airport express connected from the home theater system to the speaker out port on the express through which air play worked just fine. Then the express wouldn't work with my new router so I looked for something to replace it. The new Airport Express was the same price as the Apple TV and so I went with it for the added HDMI from NetFlix benefits. Now I find that the cables I used on the express won't work on the Apple TV. It wants an optical cable but there is only one port on the speakers and it is needed to get the sound from the TV to the speakers. So, is here a work around? An adapter or something? What I really wanted it for more than anything else was to use air play to get my music from the computer to the theater speakers.

I have a further question about this. It turns out I do have 2 optical audio ports but I was told I wouldn't need it if it was connected via hdmi. I have 4 ports and they are all in use so the question is whether the best solution is to just get an optical audio cable and connect it directly or get an hdmi splitter so I can add in the Apple TV?

NEED HELP --- hooking up tv, cable box, home theater

60" Samsung smart TV --- contains several HDMI inputs
Time Warner HD cable box --- contains 1 HMDI input; components as well
LG Home Theater in a box, Model #BH6820SW --- contains 1 HDMI output, red/white aux input, & yellow video output.
Very simple...... I want to turn my TV on, change channels with cable box remote & have my sound from TV come out of this home theater in a box I just bought.
I've been at this for hours and I'm ready to take it back because of the ongoing frustration. I have 3 HDMI cables to use (which obviously I won't need all of them), I have a red/white audio cables and a yellow video cable to use if needed.
Can someone out there PLEASE explain how this can be done?????????
Thanks.

You may be able to do it by running a Digital Optical cable to the Digital optical input on the LG from the TW Cable Box, and a seperate HDMI cable to the TV from the TW Cable box.
Honestly though, I'd take it back and get a an AVR with HDMI switching, a set of speakers, and a standalone Blu Ray player. It'll cost more, but you'll get a better feature set, better performance, and more flexbilty to add more devices down the road.

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