Connecting Aegos to X-fi Cards - Query before purchase

Raelthorne · 19 Mar 2006 at 03:37

Hi folks,

I was considering buying a set of Aego M's and an X-Fi Extreme edition. I can only see RCA phono cable connections

for input on the back of the Aego Subwoofer.

As far as I know, the outputs on the soundcard are the standard 3.5mm jacks and cables.

My question therefore is how do you connect the X-fis to the Aego? Is there a supplied cable that is 3.5mm jack at one end and RCA phono at the other?

Can anyone help ?

Cheers,

Ken

willd58 · 19 Mar 2006 at 03:43

Im intrested to know this aswell.

Chris19 · 19 Mar 2006 at 04:30

I have the xtreme music card and it wasnt supplied with converters just the card and driver cd. i suppose you might be able to find some from everyones much loved bay.

lightning512 · 19 Mar 2006 at 05:14

Hi

There won't be a cable supiled with the X-fi,but speakers them self should come with it, but if they don't you can get the cable form most supermarkets for about a £5 all you need is a phono to stereo leed.

Hope that helps

bitterSTAR · 19 Mar 2006 at 14:38

Creative do cables for their soundblaster cards seperately too: Click here to view

EternalMovement · 19 Mar 2006 at 15:44

Hey the speakers come with everything needed to connect them up to the X-Fi Extreme edition, I got them both both from oc last week and its all good :cool:

Flanno · 20 Mar 2006 at 17:27

I am about to order them myself. I don't have enough room for a proper 5.1 setup for the PC. I actually already have a logitech 5500 setup on the other side of the bedroom hooked up to my 32" Samsung LCDTV/Xbox 360/DivX player, with the surrounds on either side of the beds headrest. So as you can appreciate another set of surrounds on the other side of the room for the PC would look...ahem...crazy. So neat 2.1's it is.

A few questions. Hope you don't mind.

1. Is the sub nice and compact (I hope so), and are the speakers sufficiently powerful for gaming ? Or would I be better served by the Logitech Z-2300's ?

2. I will be using them with a X-Fi. Does this combo give a nice pseudo surround effect with the CMSS surround mode.

EternalMovement · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:50

Check out this thread for a bit more info on them including screenshots of the sub. Can't find my camera for the life of me to take one for you.
I think its pretty compact myself considering the amount of base it can output.

Thier more than powerfull enough for games, I,ll be surprised if you ever had to turn them up past 4% of the total volume level as they can go very loud if needed

They give a nice affect with the CMSS surround mode I think personaly and the 24-bit Crystalizer works nicely with mp3's.

Flanno · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:52

Thanks a million.

I am just after nicking my brother Denon DM33 micro system. I wonder how that would compare ?

EternalMovement · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:01

I would imagine it would be a close call myself as its a mirco system but I guess your never really know for certain till you try it

Flanno · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:07

Actually the DM33 while a micro system comes very close to entry level hifi, well at least the DM31 did which I had a couple of years back and it wasn't far off my Meridian/Arcam/Mission hi-fi setup I owned 10 years before, as evidenced by all the awards the DM31 won. Still the Aego speakers look really tidy and I can't imagine those Denon speakers are shielded.