Dogg
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Re: moving from 1st gen Audigy to X-Fi Audio Card - lost 4.1
I wouldn't think it would be an analog/digital issue. Only because I'm using the digital coax output from my onboard sound into my Z5500 speakers. ALL sounds are passed through this connection, not just DD or other digital sources.
I would tend to think it is a difference between the two cards, drivers, or simply your source material.
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royphil345
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4 edits | The only digital formats your speakers can decode are Dolby Digital, DTS, and plain stereo.
From Logitech site:
Supported digital formats:
Dolby Digital
DTS and DTS 96/24
PCM (uncompressed stereo): 44.1 kHz / 16 bit through 96 kHz / 24 bit
If you're getting "surround" from any source besides Dolby Digital or DTS (stereo music or EAX games for instance), it's simply a simulated surround being created by the hardware in the speaker set and perhaps using a particular setting.
The other guy's speakers may or may not have the ability to create simulated surround from stereo. I'm not even sure what formats they can decode because he didn't give the model #. If something's changed as far as getting simullated surround from a stereo source, it may just be a setting on the speakers. If he's having trouble with Dolby Digital, I would suspect a software setting needs to be reset somewhere to allow the surround encoded signal to pass through, either in the player software, sound card software, Creative Audio Console or Windows sound options. He wasn't really specific about the source / format / player he's having problems getting surround out of. If Dolby Digital is set to be decoded by the sound card instead of passed through and decoded externally in the player or any other software... surround will be output through the analog outputs of the sound card and stereo through the digital output.
The best way to get true surround from surround sources that are not Dolby Digital or DTS, sources that can only be decoded by the sound card and not the speaker set, or simulated surround that is created by the sound card / software is using analog connections for all the channels. |
