PC Audio out, what's the best way to connect my receiver??

[squirrellydw]

What is the best way to connect my PC to my receiver?  I am guessing it would be digital out, then coax right?

[Green Giant]

Yes, what kind of speakers you sticking in there?

[squirrellydw]

I will probably use these in the ceiling
http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Gold-6-5-inch-Ceiling-Speakers/dp/B0006FK3Y2

[stevemartins]

I dont know about the best way, but the cheapest and easiest way is the way I'm running audio from my comptuer. Simply get a  phono to rca adapter cable and just run your comptuer audio output to the rca inputs on your reciever. If you want a better solution you can get a soundcard with an optical audio output and run that to your reciever (assuming your reciever has an optical input) which would give you a cleaner audio signal, but i honestly do not think you will be able to tell any kind of difference in the sound quality in an arcade machine.
this is the cable I'm refering to

http://www.radioshack.com/sm-philips-3-5mm-stereo-to-2-rca-y-adapter-cable--pi-2453699.html

[urbecrisch]

Unfortunately I had problems with the Radioshack cable.  If you don't want any buzzing sound/white noise I recommend this product.  I have one connected between my PC speaker jack and my stereo receiver and the sound is perfect!

http://www.fxsound.com/mp3connector/index.php?vendor=0&subvendor=0&plus=0&refer=0

[kelemvor]

This really depends on what sort of outputs you have on your sound card.

Simplest way is jsut to use a headphone jack splitter that goes to the red/white RCA type plugs on the other end and then run that to the receiver.  But if you're sound ccard supports 5.1, then you can get special cables to do that too and keep the surround sound signals.

[genesim]

You obviously need an aplifier to drive teh speakers.

After that just run a y-splitter from the front analog audio outs.

For multi speakers you can also go analog, or run the SPDIF through a number of ways.

Either use a computer 5.1 surround system which will decode for you, or run it to an amplifier with an on board decoder, but 5.1 really is overkill.

I use 4.1 and have great results by just having 2.1 to the front and 2.0 to the back using the analog outs.    EAX is the bomb!

[weasel-like_animal]

If you are set on using a receiver, digital out would get good results, then good speaker wire. If you don't need it though, might be more trouble then its worth. A high quality 2.1 system would be great, like the older Klipsch model is outstanding.