I had my pc hooked up to a receiver to listen to my music library. I use a analog (3.5mm to red+white rca) connector. I have had it working for several years with out any problems. I decided to add a second receiver and now there is no sound coming out of the line out jack. I have had the second receiver hooked up successfully before. I am wondering if it is possible that I overloaded the jack by adding in the second receiver and fried it?
okay we're gonna need a little more information in order to help you. for starters, have you hooked up a pair of headphones or something along those lines to the line out on your computer to make sure that there is audio, and its not your computer? if you are getting sound from your computer, please describe how you are hooking up your two receivers at the same time. have you tried just hooking up the original one again to see if it works?
If you tried to hook them up in paralell, you might have overloaded your audio card. Also, some cheap cards glitch when you slide plugs in or out while the system is turned on...you should try various combintations of restarts with the plug in, plug out, etc...
I have tried hooking up another set of speakers through the line out and no sound. Also, i have put just 1 receiver back like it was when it worked previously, and it doesnt work still. I did hook it up in parallel, so its probably overloaded the sound card jack and fried it. According to the OS(win 7), it says the card is functioning correctly and shows output in the system tray, just no sound. I plugged the 3.5mm into a laptop, which is hooked up to the stereo and there is sound, which means the cable is ok and the stereo is ok. So I guess I fried the line out jack. I guess I will need a new sound card.
Sounds like it...next time you might try feeding the second amplifier with the "monitor" output from the first amplifier.
As far as I understood the monitor out is to send the video signal to another source, not the audio signal. I think the right way to hook it up would be to supply the second receiver with an audio signal from the tape out from the first receiver.
It is different with different recievers...mine has the video out, but it also has stereo audio out for the monitor. Some recievers will allow you to connect headphones while still dring speakers, this might also work. If your unit is setup to always output to the tape deck (my reciever does not output to the tape with a 5.1 input), then use that.
i would use the headphone jack as a last resort. most receivers take the speaker level output, reduce the level with resistors, and that become the headphone output. only high end receivers have a dedicated headphone amplifier circuit. the reason why i don't think this is a good idea is the amount of changes this signal would go through. the output from the computer is amplified to speaker level, reduced to a headphone level, then input into another receiver which is then amplified to speaker level for a second time. its kinda like making a copy of a copy of a copy of a VHS tape...each time the quality is degraded. just my opinion. if you are inputting a stereo signal from your computer to your receiver, then my guess is that you're not using any surround sound modes, just stereo. so in that case, as killerbug mentioned you can use the tape record output from the first receiver to the input on the second one. or yet another option is to get a stand alone audio splitter which takes one input and amplifies it to output to multiple sources.
Come to think of it, the best way would be to use optical or coaxial digital output to the first reciever, with the MD-out digital going into the second reciever...if you can.
Thanks for all the response's, The sound card in question is an onboard realtek HD audio. Unfortunately my puter doesn't have optical out, or audio on the the monitor out. But it does have tape out for cassette recording, so I figure thats the best option for now. Go from the puter(3.5mm to red+white) to the tape in on the first receiver, then from the tape out to an input on the second receiver.
you're almost there! one problem though... if you use the tape input on the first receiver, its not going to output that same signal on the tape record output. you will have to use another input such as CD, Video, or Aux as the input, then the tape record out should work.
Since your audio is a 7.1CH, you might be able to setup windows to use the rear output jack as your main output jack...goto Control Pannel>Sound, select the realtek, and click "Configure"...you can then set it as "5.1 audio" and the next screen will let you disconnect all the speakers other than the rear 2..
I also have another problem, Since the headphone jack does not function, i would like to re-assign one of the other jacks (center/subwoofer yellow orange) as the front speakers so I can get some sound from my puter. I would like to edit my registry to reflect the change by changing the pin binary. But there are only three entries in my registry with pin numbers (pin04 = 01 00 00 00, pin05 = 01 00 00 00, pin06 = 00 00 00 00). How would I find out which pin number corresponds to which jack. Realtek HD Changing Jack output reassignments I found an article explaining how to change these, but i dont have the same pin numbers. The registry entry has 62 entries and i'm not totally sure what to change. Any help would be appreciated.
