Possible to use creativer 7.1 speakers for 360?

SolidSnake · 14 May 2006 at 14:46

Hello people,

IVe got the hd vga cable, plugged it in to my monitor, it works fine, the only problem is u get the audio cables attachd to the vga lead (red and white) now i cnt plug them in becuase i got no speakers on the monitor.

Is it possible i cn buy a adapter or something so i can plug it into the creative T7700 speakers? i got the sub w etc, its just i i cnt plug the audio cables directly in to the speakers, becuase the jacks arnt the right size

Thanks

DaveyD · 14 May 2006 at 14:50

http://www.zen85569.zen.co.uk/xbox360/CRT-VGA/sound.jpg

That's what you're going to need, but you're not going to get more than 2 channel sound from the speakers.

JUMPURS · 14 May 2006 at 15:16

do your speakers not have an optical in?? thought that would have been pretty standard on a 7.1 setup?

DaveyD · 14 May 2006 at 15:34

JUMPURS said:
do your speakers not have an optical in?? thought that would have been pretty standard on a 7.1 setup?

Only more premium / more expensive speaker setups come with optical input / decoders etc, those speakers seem bottom of range 7.1s, they are specifically designed to be PC speakers, so they'll have 3x or 4x analogue inputs designed for 7.1 capable sound cards.

Creative have a digital decoder for these types of speaker setups that comes at a price:
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=4&subcategory=136&product=9468

da_mic_1530 · 14 May 2006 at 17:32

DaveyD said:
Only more premium / more expensive speaker setups come with optical input / decoders etc, those speakers seem bottom of range 7.1s, they are specifically designed to be PC speakers, so they'll have 3x or 4x analogue inputs designed for 7.1 capable sound cards.

Creative have a digital decoder for these types of speaker setups that comes at a price:
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=4&subcategory=136&product=9468

check the auction site there going about £50

EDIT - aww well when i was in the market for one there were 6 going for 50

DaveyD · 14 May 2006 at 17:49

da_mic_1530 said:
check the auction site there going about £50

Is an auction site though, and only one on there is £62 + another £12 postage, and bidding isn't over. Retail they're ususally £80-100.

Though I'm a bit of an audio nut, so I wouldn't personally go for that option, as the speakers would be holding back the setup, but would still be a pretty good overall I'd have thought.