onkyo tx-sr805 vs yamaha rx-v863

[gsrki17]

Hello for everybody.
Please help me. Your opinion which a/v receiver is better? It will be used for music (mp3 and cd audio) and hd movies (720p and 1080p) and ofcourse dvd. How can I connect it to the computer?
sound card x-fi xtreme music
speakers creative gigaworks s750 7.1 thx certified.
P.S later i wish to buy some hi-fi speakers

[Rike255]

Can't say I've ever seen that Yammie before but I can say that the 805 is a fantastic receiver. In fact I bought it and I couldn't be happier with my purchase.

If your PC has optical out for audio you can hook it up that way. That's what I use.

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by gsrki17

...sound card x-fi xtreme music

Is this the sound card you have? Looking at the specs it says:

24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources: 96khz to analog 7.1 speaker output


This is what I would use for audio...but looking at the picture I don't see enough (7.1) connections? (if not, then use an optical cable)

Maybe computers not my specialty.



EDIT: Ok, looked around a bit more and found you would need this cable for multichannel analog. Not sure if this is even providing true discrete channels to utilize lossless audio...but then again, if your system cannot deocode Dolby TrueHD or Dts-HD MA then its of no use anyways. I would just stick to optical.