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> Very, very, few people have their PCs connected to an AV receiver or multichannel speakers ...in part because there's no way to do that, and if you do it by
by fsckboy 4y ago
> Very, very, few people have their PCs connected to an AV receiver or multichannel speakers
...in part because there's no way to do that, and if you do it by using the headphone jack, in addition to low quality you're also going to get all system sounds
- genmud 4y agoMaybe I am self selecting, but I don't think I have seen a desktop computer or motherboard in the last 15 years without spidf over toslink or RCA. Hell, for that matter a bunch of laptops and even apple until recently included mini toslink/optical out the headphone jack.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoOr just use HDMI, doesn’t even need to have a display device for audio to work.
- raffraffraff 4y agoI've got an ancient Yamaha 5.1 receiver with no HDMI. I'm sending it audio from a Raspberry Pi4 behind my screen through a cheap USB 7.1 audio card using regular RCA connectors. The extra 2 channels are duplicates of the stereo input (using pulseaudio) and get sent to a stereo amp that goes to 4 ceiling speakers in the adjoining room. I've found that far more reliable than spdif. For example, I can download all of the Dolby test files (including their latest Atmos stuff) and I get 5.1 audio from my old receiver. Using spdif I don't.
- kajecounterhack 4y ago> spidf over toslink or RCA I don't think most people know what spidf toslink or RCA even are.
- distances 4y agoI can tell that analog-only motherboard audio is very common even if it doesn't make sense. This was the biggest filter when I was selecting my motherboard, limited the available options just to a handful (within reasonably priced boards, expensive top end of course has all bells and whistles).
- brokenmachine 4y agoHDMI or spdif
- FpUser 4y agoMotherboard on my PC has optical output and it is connected to external amp that is connected to 2 audio monitors and the sub.