The easy approach to connect a Sound Blaster card to your Home Theater receiver
is to purchase a Sound Blaster Home Theater Cable available at www.soundblaster.com.
To connect the Home Theater cable from a Sound Blaster card to an home theater
A/V receiver, follow the procedures below. Each connector on the Sound
Blaster Home Theater Cable is both color coded and clearly identified in
text with its intended location.
- Power off your computer and your home theater receiver.
- Locate the Line-Out jacks on your Sound Blaster card located in the
backplate.
- Connect the 1/8" mini plug connections to the Line Out ports
on your Sound Blaster sound card.
- Lime Green to Line Out 1
- Black to Line Out 2
- Orange to Line Out 3
- Connect each of the labeled RCA plugs to the corresponding input on
your home theater receiver. Use all available inputs on your receiver.
The following information on pin assignment (channel allocation) is helpful
if you prefer to use cables from different sources, or use a combination
of cables.
The 7.1 Sound Blaster cards include Sound Blaster X-Fi, Sound Blaster
Audigy 4 Pro, Sound Blaster Audigy 4, and Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
The compatible speakers are 7.1 speakers such as GigaWorks S750, Creative
Inspire T7700, T7800.
There are 3 analog Line Out jacks on these cards. Line Out 1 is a standard
mini stereo jacks for sending out Front Right and Front Left signals.
Line Out 2 and Line Out 3 are 4-pole mini jacks.
Line Out 2 is configured as: Rear Left, Rear Right,
and Side Right
Line Out 3 is configured as: Front Center, Subwoofer,
and Side Left
The 6.1 Sound Blaster cards include Sound Blaster Audigy 2. The compatible
speakers are 6.1 speakers such as Creative Inspire T6600.
There are 3 analog Line Out jacks on these cards. Line Out 1 and 2 are
standard mini stereo jacks (3-pole) for sending out Front Right and
Front Left, and Rear Right and Rear Left signals respectively.
Line Out 3 is a 4-pole mini jack for sending out Front Center, Subwoofer,
and Rear Center signals.
Line Out 2: Rear Left, Rear Right
Line Out 3: Front Center, Subwoofer, and Rear Center
This adapter is generally found at audio/visual stores and is commonly
sold as a video camera to VCR adapter.
The 5.1 Sound Blaster cards include Sound Blaster Audigy, Sound Blaster
Live! 5.1, Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Sound Blaster Live! etc. The compatible
speakers are 5.1 speakers from Creative Labs or others.
There are 3 analog Line Out jacks on these cards. All of these jacks
are standard mini stereo jacks (3-pole). The Line Out 1 is for sending
out Front Right and Front Left, Line-Out 2 is for sending Rear Right
and Rear Left signals, and Line Out 3 is for sending out Front Center,
Subwoofer signals.
The Line Out 3 is also doubled as a Digital Out jack for connecting
to external digital device such as a Dolby Digital Receiver, or a
Speaker system with a Digital Input.
