# SoundBlaster Live Audio question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 25, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742 "2000-07-25T06:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/1 "2000-07-25T06:16:40Z")
I run an Intel Pentium III 450 with 128 megs ram with SoundBlaster Live and the various programs that support it (why this is important, I don’t know, but I’ve been burned for not including this before). My Question: I have numorious MP3’s on my PC and would like to feed an audio line to my main stereo. It’s an older ONKYO amp with any number of input lines. How exactly could I accomplish this? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/2 "2000-07-25T07:04:58Z")
a. Get 2 items From Radio Shack. 1: A 3 or 6 foot 1/8" stereo plug to 2 L+R RCA phono plug connectors (std stereo type). 2: A 20 foot 1/8" stereo headphone extension cable. b. Plug 1 into 2. c. Plug 1/8" male stereo plug into line level output of SB card and plug phono plugs into tape or CD or aux input(s) of Onkyo. d. Get Down! ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/3 "2000-07-25T07:47:12Z")
Or you could be cool like me and buy the digital I.O daughtercard from Creative and use a TOSlink to run to your stereo 😃 But since it’s an older Onkyo, Astro’s right on the money 🙂 -Sam ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/4 "2000-07-25T08:39:29Z")
Thank you… I’ll giver a shot in the morning. Then again, Radio shack Huh? I was hoping for monster cables or something cool down those lines. Oh well, time to make up a new address, phone number, zip code, etc., just to get some cables from the shack. ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/5 "2000-07-25T08:45:49Z")
You can buy my digital IO daughtercard. I have never had any use for it whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/6 "2000-07-25T09:12:13Z")
I don’t even know what the Hell a digital IO daughtercard is anyways. Your not trying to screw with old Cnote are ya? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/7 "2000-07-25T09:58:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tcburnett \* > \*\*You can buy my digital IO daughtercard. I have never had any use for it whatsoever. \*\* That’s too bad TC, mine works great! Gets all the data to my HT receiver fast and friendly, gives me an input to the computer so I can rip MP3’s and whatnot, DVD output, Etc… If it’s used correctly, it’s a gem of a card. Cnote…the Digital I/O daughtercard is a card that piggy-backs the SBLive! card ans gives you one TOSlink(fiber-optic) and 1 coaxial SPDIF(digital "monster-type RCA cable), in and out ot your computer. It allows you to use a digital signal to your HTPC or whatever. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundblaster-live-audio-question/26742/8 "2000-07-25T14:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > \*\*Thank you… I’ll giver a shot in the morning. > > Then again, Radio shack Huh? I was hoping for monster cables or something cool down those lines. Oh well, time to make up a new address, phone number, zip code, etc., just to get some cables from the shack. \*\* Given that you going from a source with limited real world true “high” fidelity (ie the Soundblaster live card - I also have one and like it muchly) in the audiophile sense and playing highly compressed sound files, methinks a pair of the below described might be overkill. I think Chronos must be writing their copy. Monster’s Exclusive Time Correct® Speaker Cables for Superb Music Reproduction Speaker Cables Face the Problems of Time. The problems that occur in audio cables are electromagnetic in nature and are difficult to measure by conventional test methods. But they are very audible. As you send your favorite piece of music through a speaker cable, its complex harmonic structure becomes separated, delayed and smeared because of the varying intensities of the magnetic fields that are generated. This causes frequency and phase (time) distortions that inhibit accurate music reproduction regardless of how good the rest of your system is. Our Time Correct® winding technology controls these magnetic fields and time aligns the musical signals so they all travel coherently through the cable. The sonic improvements from Monster® technology have even convinced the skeptics and have redefined the way people think about wire. Z Series-Z1™ Advanced Time Correct® technology in a compact, high performance cable designed to maximize today’s stereo and home theatre systems Technology and Features Time Correct® Windings with Patented Magnetic Flux Tube® for Increased Audio Accuracy MultiTwist™ Construction and PEX™ Dielectric for Enhanced Depth and Reproduction of Inner Detail Precision-Machined Connectors 24K Gold Contacts Duraflex® Jacket MultiTwist™ Construction Proprietary PEX™ Dielectric Magnetic Flux Tube® Multiple Bass Conductors and High Frequency Networks Time Correct® Construction