audigy and a home theater receiver

[kingofold]

alrighty, so I bought an audigy 2 off my friend to use on my desktop for games and such. my monitors are unpowered, and at the moment I'm going to power them with a home theater reciever. The problem I ran into is that the digital connection on the soundcard is spdif 1/8th, and the digital connection on the reciever is spdif coaxial RCA.

Is there an adapter that would work that would carry the digital signal?

I've seen a 1/8th to rca adapter but it didnt' say anything about digital...I don't know they are only a few bucks, if I bought one and tried it and it wasn't the right one could it damage anything?

 

[jake-owa]

I think you might be confused. I've never seen a digital connector on an 1/8" jack. You should have an SPDIF RCA connector on that audigy.

 

[brzilian]

alrighty, so I bought an audigy 2 off my friend to use on my desktop for games and such. my monitors are unpowered, and at the moment I'm going to power them with a home theater reciever. The problem I ran into is that the digital connection on the soundcard is spdif 1/8th, and the digital connection on the reciever is spdif coaxial RCA.

Is there an adapter that would work that would carry the digital signal?

I've seen a 1/8th to rca adapter but it didnt' say anything about digital...I don't know they are only a few bucks, if I bought one and tried it and it wasn't the right one could it damage anything?

Audigy's have internal 5.1 decoders and cannot be connected to 5.1 receivers. To truly use it in a surround setup, you need to buy the 6 speaker kits you see at Best Buy in the computer dept.