Do new 4k gaming monitors hook up to old receivers? (currently hooked up to hdtv) Thanks!

[NikolaZdravkovic]

Good day,

A shout out to all the friendly people on these forums. I currently have my gaming pc hooked up to an hdtv through an hdmi cable. I also have my receiver connected to my hdtv through the audio out on the tv (beautiful sound). My question is, do the newer 4k gaming monitors (32 inch plus) have the capability to connect with old receivers. I have a Pioneer VSX-9300 receiver that launched in 1988 . I am worried that when I eventually upgrade my pc to become 4k compatible (and grab a sweet 4k monitor), I will have to give this beauty up. I am by no means an audio expert of any kind. I have been using this receiver for years after an old co worker gave it to me (plus beautiful JBL speakers).

 

[atomicWAR]

you can use old receivers for sound, I do it with a 4K TV and 1080P capable receiver, but you have to run two cables. Basically you run one cable directly to your TV for video and another to your receiver for audio. I tried originally using both an optical connection and hdmi arc (audio return channel) but had issues with 5.1 and 3D sound not working properly in all software/games/apps. So what I had to do was this. I run one hdmi 2.0 cable to my TV for video then using my DVI port on my GPU i run a DVI to hdmi cable to my receiver. Windows see's the receiver as a monitor and can therefore receive sound from the GPU solving 5.1/3D sound issues optical and hdmi arc can have. This does however cause there to be a phantom monitor in the upper right side of my screen (ie the mouse will keep going to the right like a screen is there). Point being it can be easy to temporarily lose your mouse so keep that in mind. Ideally you want to run a receiver that is 4k capable with hdr and 4:4:4 sub-sampling at 60hz but money doesn't grow on trees so hacks like mine work to get us by.

edit: in your case hdmi won't be present so you'll be forced to use optical audio or av to headphone jack converters from your motherboard/sound card.

 

[NikolaZdravkovic]

Thanks for the quick reply! I have no problems with my current setup as is for sure. It is just when I am looking into the new 4k gaming monitors, they seem to lack many input options. I do rely on the "audio out" on my tv as the connection to my audio receiver for sound. Should I just keep browsing and eventually find a 4k monitor with an audio out? My receiver being 28 years old has no hdmi inputs or anything close to it whatsoever so I would have to rely on an input from the 4k monitor to hook up to my receiver. Any idea on what the input would be called? Still audio out?

Thanks alot,
Nikola

 

[atomicWAR]

you could hope for an audio out on a monitor but you could also use your motherboard sound and run a cable from either your optical audio out or using the green mini jack (head phone jack/ audio jack) to your receiver. Assuming it accepts mini jack other wise you can get a mini jack to AV adapter.

 

[NikolaZdravkovic]

Thank you very much good sir for your reply! So many ways to get sound to work and I just love my receiver.

regards

 

[atomicWAR]

happy to help. I have been wanting to replace mine as I run several HDMI device through it and I recently got 4K. As of now my PC and PS4 bypassing it for (4k/hdr for PC and hdr for PS4) and do as stated above to bypass for PC...for PS4 I use the HDMI ARC channel. Point being soon I'll have more 4K/HDR capable devices and will need the receivers multi HDMI input to keep up.