[Mattardo]

Hey, experts. Here is my scenerio:


PC in bedroom using 2 normal speakers from onboard audio card, normal video monitor.

Media Center in living room with audio receiver (coax digital audio input from onboard audio card).


The video is fine, the audio is what I need.


Using an onboard audio card, and assuming I have enough jacks (I do) - can I send a normal stereo signal to the tiny self-powered speakers in bedroom AND send a coax-digital signal to the receiver in living room?


This is windows 7 and I only need audio in the living room for media center. All normal computing is done in bedroom, but i still need the little 2 speakers to work in bedroom as well when not using media center in living room. Can this be done? And how? Please tell me it's possible.

 

[Servicetech571]

I've not found a way to do it. I'd like to use my headphones and SPDIF w/o switching in control panel each time.

 

[Mattardo]

Oh no... I was afraid you might say something like that..


I wonder if I would fry anything if I just set it to output coax audio and then split the coax signal with a little splitter to each thing (single rca to audio receiver, stereo-rca to little speakers)... not sure if that would even work...

 

[Servicetech571]

Different type of signal, won't work. Your best bet is to split the analog audio and just run PLII on your AVR.

 

[Mattardo]

I considered that, and it would work no problem at all but it would be nice to have true surround sound in the living room, not just pl2.


I'm going to try setting the option in Media Center for Coax audio and see if it is able to switch between the two when I switch.. Hopefully! I will be really dissapointed if Windows cannot handle this. It seems that this would be a very common scenario for many people.

 

[thr3]

My motherboard handles the audio. It has both coax and TOSLINK SPDIF outputs and both are active. I use the TOSLINK output for my receiver.


There are hardware digital to analog converters available that can be used with the coax output. I use one of these to get 2 channel stereo to a whole house audio distribution system for music.



The converter that I have will only handle 2 channel LPCM, so it doesn't work for surround sound. This is acceptable for my application.

 

[Mattardo]

Ah, that definately sounds like a similar situation to mine: I need one digital coax and 1 analog stereo. That is a possibility then.