Where to connect these speakers? Computer cards or home AV receiver?
1583577
Thanks for your question. Although the subwoofer is self powered, the five satellite speakers require an amplifier so you would need a receiver. Your computer sound card will not play them. This is a fantastic sounding system. World Wide Stereo is 35 years old and a very proud Boston Acoustics dealer.
1583578
I connected mine to my home receiver. You would need a preamp to connect them to a computer.
898360
Honestly, buy a new receiver. You need this, and then you can continue using the speakers you have. Trying to do this any other way is not a good idea, and will end up costing you the same amount of money and continued frustrations on lack of HDMI inputs and outputs.
1119122
This is only a sound card. You would need to hook this up to a computer. Mac or PC doesn't matter. Sound is pretty good considering price.
586777
Honestly I have never tried that before but to try and answer your question I have to assume a few things here. One is that you are ok with how bad these things sound, to be frank these have terrible speakers and I'm not saying this as some audiophile who has very discerning tastes. As a general user these speakers are just barely audible and their reproduction of anything resembling sound is poor at best. You would do much better with a $5 pair of ear buds. I'm also assuming that you have two available HDMI ports that are not "mirrored" or "cloned". Because if you are running the HDMI through a splitter to get two separate video feeds your setup should work. Unfortunately using two separate HDMI ports will most likely not work because the card will define one port as the active sound out put and use just that one. Your best bet is to use a Y splitter audio cable (3.5MM) and go from the sound port to the monitors. HDMI in this case is probably no the best way to make this setup work.
282536
You will need an amplifier or receiver to attach to your computer thru RCA or line out. There is no way to connect direct with out the amplifier or receiver.
667397
You'd need the cheaper Sonos Connect, which has "RCA out" plugs. Those plugs can be connected to your powered PC speakers with a cheap RCA male to 3.5mm female adapter cable.
747921
If your computer does not have 5.1 surround capability then yes you will need to get a card. Check your motherboard or computers manual.
1302724
No problem connecting to a receiver. If your computer has a sound card, you could connect via phono outputs to your receiver. Also SPDIF if both have that plug.
72113
This doesnt include sound so what i did is bought an av audio cable plugged the the audio jack to my pc, the red and white on the back of the tv, but in your case you should plug them in your home theater.
1130589
They should be hooked to the audio outputs, whatever the color. If you only have a single audio output then use the adapter.
179644
No such thing as a stupid question,these are not what you need, these are very nice stereo receiver speakers, what you need will cost much less than these. These will not work for just hooking to your computer, not at all.
741732
You cannot plug these directly to your computer. You can hook these up to a receiver/amplifier and use one of the inputs on the receiver/amplifier to connect the line-out from your computer sound card.
1280393
Any sound card with XLR outputs would work but like myself, I'm going into a mixer from my computer then into these from the main out of the mixer. Hope this helps, enjoy!
1010116
i have a somewhat similar setup to yours. initially i thought my audigy zs sound card had optical out, but after some research, it was just a plain ol' 3.5 digital output and a adapter like this one was necessary. it works. plugs coax to the z5500. good for sending out a separate dolby digital/dts stream to the speakers for decoding.
1247389
The best option would be to get a usb interface. You can find a decent one for around $100. Then you could just get a couple 1/4" TRS cables and run those from the speakers to the interface, then connect the interface to your computer with usb.
1017592
Yeah...you need a REALLY good sound card to use these, and even then, it'd be better if you just stuck to using an A/V Receiver or something instead.
1302727
You can connect to any receivers speaker outputs. You cannot connect these directly to a computer since computers do not have L and R speaker outputs.