X-Fi 7.1 "Home Theater Cable": Where to buy?

Question

Hello.
I am looking very desperately for a 7.1 "Home Theater Cable" for the X-Fi:
CReative Labs 7.1 "Home Theater Cable"
Where can I find it's
Do you know buying sources?
Thanks,
Tobias Claren

Answer 1

Tobias,
Despite the CL Store's accessories page still having a picture of that cable:
http://us.creative.com/products/welc...asp?category=3
it looks like they've stopped making/selling it. It's always been sort of a speciality item. However, you can substitute 3 common AV cables. You need one stereo minijack to dual RCA and two Sony-type camcorder AV cables. I'm not recommending Parts Express, per. se., but I find them useful for illustrating simple, basic cables of this type. It shouldn't be that hard to locate equivalent cables locally, though they can get pretty fancy and expensi've if that's your bent. If I had easily found the camcorder ones without gold contacts, I'd show that.
So, that said, you need one of this sort:
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...tnumber=240-35
for the sub/center jack. If I recall correctly, the red connector is the sub and the other the center.
And two of this sort:
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...tnumber=240-42
for the front and rear jacks. Again IIRC, for the front jack, white is left, red is right, and yellow is rear left. For the rear jack, white is side left, red is side right, and yellow is rear right. If I don't recall correctly, you should be able to figure it out using the channel test.
I beleve this scheme applies to the PCI 7. cards and the PCIe 7. ones use 4 stereo jacks instead (in that case you need 4 of the first type of cable).
-Dave
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