I have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 that supports Dolby Digital and DTS(?) passthrough. The connectors are the regular 1/8 for mini's and one of them is the digital coax out. My Stereo reciever is a Panasonic SA-HE75 and has two optical ins and a coax RCA in. I am wondering if I can get 5.1 soundsurround by using a mini-RCA adaptor (not a converter) and running RCA to the 'coaxial in' on my reciever. I have read this can fry your reciever because the voltage the soundcard uses is not compatable with standard recievers. I've also read that in order for this to work you must do some messing around with the creative software. As I have no clue at this point I'm hoping someone can help me out with this so I can make use of the soundsurround on my soundcard. I don't want to go out and by converters and spend more money...adapters are cheap so if I need more of them that's fine. I also dont' want to spend money on a digital I/O. If I do that I may as well just go and buy a new soundcard that has an optical out or a RCA coax out. I'd like to try to get the soundcard I have now to work for cheap than spend more money. Thanks.
One problem with this whole setup is, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, is that Dolby Surround is not in any way compatible with EAX which as you know is the surrround encoding used in most of the games nowadays.
What that means is that even if u somehow get past the volatage problem (I can't, I still get a bad feedback buzz sound) you will get full surround sound only from DVD movies you play on your pc. Some games back in the day before EAX used Dolby encoding. I believe one of them was UT2003 (im not 100% sure right now) and it worked great on my Yahamaha reciver. The only problem was that it was Dolby Pro Logic not Dolby Pro Logic 2, therefore no stereo seperation on surround speakers.
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