Hi folks,
I recently joined this forum in the hope someone might be able to give me some advice on an audio query I have.
I recently built, from scratch, a home theatre PC running Windows media centre which is hooked up to my 40" LCD TV and it works great ! But it is currently just using the TV speakers for sound which is less than ideal.
There is a 7.1 audio header on the PC mother board which is Intel Azalia (HD audio) but I have nothing to connect this to. I could always add in another sound card if the HD audio is too exotic.
I also have a Sony DAV-S550 DVD player with 5.1 sound and speakers. Unfortunately this is an integrated unit 😡 with no facility for audio input and I don't need the DVD capability any more. A quick tear down revealed several boards, one looks like an amp but it seems to have digital inputs into three CXD9634Q chips so it seems this board is a decoder and an amp?
If I could somehow re-use some of that surround sound system and the speakers then it would surely save me a good few dollars on a new amp and speaker system.
Or is there such a thing as a cheap analog audio amplifier that I could use to drive the 4-ohm speakers that came with the Sony DVD player?
I'm not totally averse to picking up a soldering iron and making something cusom but my analog electronics knowledge is a little rusty and I'd prefer to buy a solution if it can be got for a reasonable price.
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks,
Mark
I recently joined this forum in the hope someone might be able to give me some advice on an audio query I have.
I recently built, from scratch, a home theatre PC running Windows media centre which is hooked up to my 40" LCD TV and it works great ! But it is currently just using the TV speakers for sound which is less than ideal.
There is a 7.1 audio header on the PC mother board which is Intel Azalia (HD audio) but I have nothing to connect this to. I could always add in another sound card if the HD audio is too exotic.
I also have a Sony DAV-S550 DVD player with 5.1 sound and speakers. Unfortunately this is an integrated unit 😡 with no facility for audio input and I don't need the DVD capability any more. A quick tear down revealed several boards, one looks like an amp but it seems to have digital inputs into three CXD9634Q chips so it seems this board is a decoder and an amp?
If I could somehow re-use some of that surround sound system and the speakers then it would surely save me a good few dollars on a new amp and speaker system.
Or is there such a thing as a cheap analog audio amplifier that I could use to drive the 4-ohm speakers that came with the Sony DVD player?
I'm not totally averse to picking up a soldering iron and making something cusom but my analog electronics knowledge is a little rusty and I'd prefer to buy a solution if it can be got for a reasonable price.
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Mark and welcome to the forums. You might wish to post your question in another thread as there is less traffic here in the introductions.
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