How to connect your PC to wireless stereo channel?

Why connect your PC on a stereo channel?

Computers now provide a sound as good as hifi chains. You can use it to listen to music through files including mp3 which restore a sound equal to an audio CD. More recent games immerse you in a realistic atmosphere.
However, the sound quality is generally marred by speakers of low quality. If you have a stereo, you can use it by connecting your PC.

Check if the string to an audio input

For whether it is possible to connect your computer to your stereo just to see if it has an audio input.
An audio input is a RCA like this:

She is generally corresponds to an entry called line in, aux or CD. It is a prize to add an item to the stereo. It is possible that the chain has taken many of this style, then you need to check their name, because it determines the type of device can be connected (eg avoiding the phono input type which operate at a impedance different).
If a named line in, or the CD is present, it is on these that we connect the sound output of the computer.

Exit type on the sound card

The sound card of the computer must have one or more outputs. Check the manual of the card where the exit. It can be of two types:
Regular jack, in which case a cable like the one below will be needed:

RCA jack, also called CINCH (red and white or red and black), in which case it will acquire the following cable:

In both cases the cables do not cost much money, we must be careful to take the cables long enough to move out of their cards to the entrance of the channel!

Settings

Once connected, enough to switch the channel on the type of input that was connected computer (aux, line in or cd).
For best sound, it is advisable not to put the volume too high from the PC to the risk to produce a saturated. Preference therefore an average output of the sound card, even up to the sound of the stereo.
On the other hand it is necessary to ensure that the sound coming out of the chain is at the same volume when you listen to the radio or a CD on the channel, so you do not toast when you switch to the AUX input to radio ...
Finally, the stereo speakers are usually not shielded, it is possible, if they are located too close to the screen, they disrupt the work and even damage it. The solution is to remove them from the screen.

Sometimes background noise (buzzing and crackling) appears. This means that the landing between the computer and the stereo is poor. Simply draw a cable between the computer chassis and the earth of the stereo to remove it!