AV Recommendation for old Harman Kardon Speakers

[LrdVoldemort]

I have both the Harman Kardon AVR10 and the AVS10 that came with my Gateway Destination PC many years ago. If I am not mistaken, I think the speakers are fine in today's terms, but the av receiver needs updating in order for us to get true surround sound. (It still works perfectly for radio). We don't have very many home theater components, just a computer with a Blu ray drive and TV/DVR through Windows Media Center currently hooked up to our TV through our video card over HDMI. The audio goes through the analog 3.5 mm jacks on a nice sound card (HT Omega Claro Plus) to a cheap dell 5.1 surround system. We would like to hook up our computer, (preferably through our sound card to the Harman Kardon Speakers. What would be the best way to listen to our home theater pc sound through these speakers at 5.1 surround sound? Get a new AV receiver and hook it up via spdif through our computer sound card and just send the video through our video card direct to tv via hdmi like it is now? Do we even need a high tech receiver, or can we just find some simple amp thing, to power our speakers? We would like it to be somewhat future proof, and would like to keep it a while, don't need 3D but would like 4K ready. We also would want a device at least as good as our speakers, not some cheap sony receiver. Thanks in advance for your help, let us know if you have questions.

here is our speakers:
http/www.harmankardon.com/images/media/AVS10_OM_EN.pdf

our av receiver:
http/www.harmankardon.com/images/media/AVR10_OM_EN.pdf


the sound card:
http/www.htomega.com/claroplus.html

TV:
http/store.vizio.com/e470vl.html#support

 

[americanaudiophile]

Your idea to use an up to date surround receiver makes sense. You can send the audio and video to the receiver with HDMI and then to the TV with HDMI. I think you are over rating the quality of the speakers so you don't need a great receiver unless you will be upgrading them in the near future. Onkyo receivers are very good if you are shopping on the low priced side. I would not spend more than $200-350 on a receiver for these speakers. Save the excess funds if there are any towards new speakers starting with the fronts.

 

[LrdVoldemort]

Your idea to use an up to date surround receiver makes sense. You can send the audio and video to the receiver with HDMI and then to the TV with HDMI. I think you are over rating the quality of the speakers so you don't need a great receiver unless you will be upgrading them in the near future. Onkyo receivers are very good if you are shopping on the low priced side. I would not spend more than $200-350 on a receiver for these speakers. Save the excess funds if there are any towards new speakers starting with the fronts.

Thanks for your response. Yes, I wasn't planning on getting a really high quality receiver, just as good as my speakers. I will look into Onkyo receivers. Our computer sound card only has a spdif or the normal computer 3.5 mm jacks for surround computer speaker sets. Is there any way to mesh the spdif running from my pc sound card and the HDMI video only output coming from my video card?