You need 4 sets of twin RCA (Phono) male to 3-poles minijack. Plug the four sets of minijack to be back of the Gigaworks and 8 phono to the back of your AV receiver (Pre-Amp Out). Lime = Front L/R, Orange = Cen/Sub, Black = Rear L/R, Grey = Side L/R Alternatively, cut the phono end of the 7 speakers, which gives you two strain of wires, screw the wires to the back of the AV unit (Speaker out). And use RCA to minijack. Plug the minijack end to the Orange (Cen/Sub) at the back of your Gigaworks and the RCA to the AV Pre-Amp Out Sub. Make sure you check your AV's RMS wattage and Impendence. Otherwise you might blow your speakers.
You will need a receiver with 5.1 RCA outputs. Purchase 3 adapters, 1/8" stereo femal to 2 RCA. You can then split out the front, center, sub and rear channels and send them to the speakers.
If your surround receiver has HDMI, connect an HDMI cable from the NeoTV to the receiver, and then HDMI out the receiver to the TV. If you don't have HDMI on your receiver, you can connect an optical cable from the NEOTV to the surround receiver.
The Yamaha R-S700 is their best stereo receiver with Sirius satellite capability. It is not a surround receiver.
One of the best AV receivers for surround sound is a Yamaha.
Connect the audio out of the TV to the audio input of the surround receiver with a dual RCA cable. Note that this connection isn't surround. You will need to connect a DVD, Blu-Ray or digital cable box to the surround receiver for true surround sound.
Check in the menu of the av receiver, it should have a setting for surround sound DTS and/or Dolby Pro-Logic. The program has to be made in surround for you to get true surround in your home.
check your surround sound if it has an HDMI or AV input jacks. if it has, then you are good to go. from your satellite receiver, attach the HDMI cable or AV cable. connect it to your surround sound. after connecting the satellite receiver box and surround sound, attach the HDMI or AV cable from the surround sound to your television.
If the receiver is just stereo, not surround sound, you will not be able to create a surround sound (front, centre, sub, surround) setup.
Yes, your surround system needs a receiver. To assist you, I need the specific model and brand of your surround sound system so that we would be sure of its compatibility. I also recommend you that an appliance repair agent check your system.
A 7.2 surround receiver is used for viewing movies encoded with 7.1 channel surround sound. Very few movies have this many channels, so most of the time it will be doing 5.1 surround. The .2 part indicates the receiver has 2 subwoofer outputs, however, they are the same channel information.
You can purchase a Surround Sound Receiver from a range of electrical shops. These include Amazon and Currys where prices var from å£100 to å£600 depending on the specification.
You can use any sound card that has surround sound outputs along with a surround speaker setup to watch movies in surround sound. No sound card replicates all the functions of an actual receiver, though, as a real receiver will connect your CD player, TV, DVD player and other devices and offer a AM/FM tuner for radio (that's the 'receiver' part of the description).