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How to set up receiver + speakers?

post #1 of 10
9/20/11 at 2:39pm
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Hey guys, not really sure where to put this so I'll just throw it in this forum

 

I'm getting a new receiver and speakers from my parents but I'm not so sure how to set it up to my computer so I have a couple questions:

 

1. Since I'm getting a receiver, is there any reason to keep my fiio e9 desktop amp and/or my creative titanium hd soundcard?

 

2. Do I plug the receiver into the creative sound card or straight into the computer's built in sound card?

 

3. Do I use an rca cable or a split rca cable (one end goes into headphone jack of my sound card, other end goes in to the rca jacks of the receiver)

 

4. Does the receiver act as an amp+dac?

 

Thanks! I am really new to this stuff.

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post #2 of 10
9/20/11 at 6:17pm

Let us know the model of receiver it's method of audio in i.e digital, analog or both?

 

1. You can keep that Titanium and employ it as your PC DAC if feeding analog to the receiver. E9 could still be used if you have very demanding cans that fare better with amplification

 

2. If you are passing analog out the Creative card as onboard sound is crappy relatively hehe

 

3. 3.5mm male to red/white RCA soundcard to receiver

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4. If you are connecting via analog only as amp as soundcard is functioning as DAC 

 

5. May be obvious but have the required length of speaker wire for your set up tongue_smile.gif


Edited by trog - 9/20/11 at 6:23pm
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post #3 of 10
9/21/11 at 7:25am
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Is it better for me to use the receiver as the dac or the sound card? What would be the best way to set all of this up for the best sound quality?
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post #4 of 10
9/21/11 at 10:53am

That is why we need to know what u have on hand i.e a stereo amp or a higher end AVR with a good DAC chip in it L3000.gif

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post #5 of 10
9/22/11 at 8:49pm
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I have the Yamaha RX-V659 receiver

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post #6 of 10
9/22/11 at 9:21pm

Hmm think that has a Burr Brown DAC - more info/consultation here i guess
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=733674

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post #7 of 10
9/22/11 at 9:24pm
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I skimmed through a couple pages of that thread but it seems like they are talking about more of a speaker/tv setup. I just need to know whether it would be better than my fiio e9+creative titanium hd combo for my ultrasone pro 900 headphones

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post #8 of 10
9/22/11 at 9:40pm

Get a mini Toslink to regular Toslink cable and run it from the optical output of your soundcard to your receiver. Don't worry about the DAC quality differences because if you run the analog signal, the receiver will convert it to digital and back again through its DAC anyway.

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post #9 of 10
9/23/11 at 3:12am

Well i was hoping those peeps over @ AVS had a somewhat similiar experience with hardware and could shed more light but my suggestion is: since u have both sound card and AVR on hand the best way is play it all out? Specs on paper do not always tell the whole story hehe Ya some AVRs do ADC to all analog signals but looking at yours u have those "multi channel inputs" and typically feeding to the front L/R (left of pic below) is a sort of "analog bypass" so no ADC takes place so perhaps try it out if u really wanted to compare tongue_smile.gif

yamaha-rx-v659-receiver-rear-large.jpg


Edited by trog - 9/23/11 at 3:17am
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post #10 of 10
9/23/11 at 6:05am

Use the Titanium HD's S/PDIF (digital; coaxial RCA or optical Toslink) output.

 

Dolby Digital Live support in particular can be useful, especially for games, and while it's not strictly needed for movies that are already encoded to begin with, it's the only way you can get surround sound out of the Titanium HD.

 

I don't know whether the sound card or receiver has the better DAC, though.

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