Need Help Severely!!!!!!!

[twistedlink]

Ok im going to be purchasing the Logitech 5.1 X-530 and the only thing it has is sound card hookup so i was thinking either just hooking the audio up to my tv ( it has standard headphone jack and Coax) or getting a Adapter that would change it to RCA but... i think the only way i can have 5.1 is with the coax connected so i was thinkin is there an adapter that can change rca to coax???? or is there a simpliar way to do this??? thx for reading

 

[MDS]

You mention computer speakers and a TV but then say you might hook up audio to the TV. You lost me there. Are there any other devices, like a receiver, involved?

So the TV has a headphone jack and Coax (which? - the RF input for cable tv or digital audio out). I suspect it is the RF input as few if any TVs use digital coax for outputs. If so, you can't use the speakers with that TV without a cable box or receiver. More information is necessary to be able to help.

 

[Adam]

twisted, welcome to the forum.

Sorry, but you can't connect a digital coax signal directly to the X-530 system.

The X-530 only has analog inputs, and those are the three minijacks that you'd normally connect to a PC soundcard. One minijack is for the front right and left speaker signals, one minijack is for the rear right and left signals, and the last minijack is for the center and subwoofer signals.

To connect you TV, you would connect the headphone jack (I'm guessing a minijack) to the minijack on the X-530 for the front right/left speakers. The other three speakers wouldn't get used. If the TV has a digital coax plug, well, you can't connect it to the X-530 directly. That coax will be outputting a digital signal that is encoded, and the X-530 has no ability to decode it. You'd need a separate Dolby Digital decoder, and it would make more sense just to by a system that can use that digital signal already (for example, the Logitech Z-5450 system).