Most computer speakers do not allow us to talk about high-quality sound, because their functionality is initially somewhat different. At the present time, when a computer often replaces both a home theater and a music center, such compromises may no longer suit the user. Fortunately, connecting your computer to a modern receiver is easy, thanks to the compatible connector formats.
Instructions
Step 1
To realize all the possibilities of your sound card, it would be better to use not a stereo amplifier, but a multichannel receiver, which, in addition, allows you to connect via a digital data transmission channel.
Step 2
Check your sound card manual or carefully inspect the connectors for a digital output that requires either coaxial or fiber optic cable to use. A receiver usually has both inputs.
Step 3
Connect the digital output of your sound card to the input of the receiver. In addition, it makes sense to connect the analog outputs of the sound card to the corresponding inputs of the receiver, otherwise you will lose multichannel in games (this is true, first of all, for Creative cards). Switching between these inputs, as a rule, is carried out with one button on the receiver's remote control.
Step 4
Set the digital interface as the audio output device on your computer (switch to analog for gaming).
Step 5
Set up your sound filter (for example, ffdaudio or AC3Filter) to skip the AC3 and DTS digital stream without processing, but MP3 and others - on the contrary, let them be encoded into that AC3 and only then transferred to the receiver.
Step 6
Match the speakers for your receiver and enjoy the sound.
