Connecting Soundbars with Wireless subwoofer to AV receiver

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Hanya Ngetes

Audiophyte
Hi All,

I have samsung soundbar HW-T450 (pair with wireless subwoofer) that has only optical digital input. I want to upgrade my system into real 5.1 channel home theater using AV receiver, but I don't want wasted my existing soundbar & wireles subwoofer.

This is My Plan:

1. Using My soundbar as center channel speaker
2. Using Soundbar's subwoofer as 0.1 channel (Subwoofer is wireless and can only natively connected to soundbar)
3. Connect Center Channel & LFE(subwoofer) pre-out of my AV Receiver, to Analog To Digital (ADC) converter using stereo RCA cable as input and optical toslink as output, with following configuration:
a. Center Channel pre-out as L input in ADC
b. LFE Channel as R input in ADC
4. Connect optical toslink ADC output to Soundbars input.

My Questions is:

a. Does the soundbar can separate Center Channel & LFE signal, and deliver that signal into correct target?(Center channel signal to soundbar & LFE to subwoofer)

b. Does all speakers in soundbar received signal as "mono" or "stereo"? , I Prefer mono, because if stereo, according to input configuration, only L channel that containts Center Channel signal, meanwhile R channel will containts LFE channel signal)

Thank you in advance


Regards,

Hanya
 
WaynePflughaupt

WaynePflughaupt

Audioholic Samurai
My Questions is:

a. Does the soundbar can separate Center Channel & LFE signal, and deliver that signal into correct target?(Center channel signal to soundbar & LFE to subwoofer)
No. The soundbar will only route an encoded 5.1 bitstream signal to the proper channels. Your ADC will be delivering a PCM stereo signal. Thus the soundbar will send your center-channel signal to its left channel, and the LFE signal to the right channel.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
 
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