On Thu, 04 May 2006 13:45:34 +1000, MR Cole <Natt King Cole> wrote:
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> Audigy 2 Zs digital setup questions.
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>Okies i have pluged 3.5mm stereo plug to my Audigy 2Zs digital out and
>conected it via Coxial to my Stereo System amp Coxial in.
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>Now the display shows Prologic and Digital, even when its not playing
>anything. I have set my system to play digital as well. And when i
>play meps they do sound better. But it does sound different to my
>Anlaloge Logitech 5300's. Though i would expect it to. Not sure what
>sounds better or not at the moment. Ill decide in a week or two.
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>One weird thing is when i play Divx Movies it does not change on the
>display at all. In DVDS if it surround sound it shows the little boxes
>to let me know its using the surround speakers. It never shows this
>when play divx movies no matter what ones i play. Even the ones with
>Ac3. Andoes i know have doible surround sound. Is this normal. Though
>it is playing though the rear speakers. Whats a good program to test
>my surround sound ?
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>For games what am i going to get if i play a game with Eax3 or Eax4 or
>any kind of surround sound. With my 5300's the sound was great in
>games. REAL 3d surround sound. I could tell where i was being shot at
>from. Bullets wizzing by ect ect. What will this setup give me ?
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>Thanks for any help.
I have just spent a couple of weeks setting up my Audigy 2 ZS, and I'm
happy to share what I learned. Unfortunately, I can't follow what you
are trying to do.
The digital coaxial output requires a monaural RCA cable into an
external Audio-Video "Home Theater" Receiver having a built-in DTS
and AC3 decoder.
As for powered PC speakers, I don't know how the Logitech Z (?) -5300
is designed to be connected. My Boston Acoustics speakers on another
machine use digital for the front channels and analog stereo for the
back two. The digital also travels over a monaural cable. It's
working fine with an older Audigy card.
These comments are from my experience with the Home Theater setup,
Audigy 2 ZS to external decoder:
Audigy Settings for s/pdif over coax : Audio HQ>device
controls>digital output sampling rate 48000
>decoder>s/pdif passthrough
Filter settings: AC3Filter: spdif (disabled) is selected. (He means
decoding is to be disabled in the filter). System tab: Use AC3
filter for: [select all]. Spdif passthrough for: [select all] . Use
Direct Sound [yes]. Note new AC3Filter handles DTS as well, so DTS
must be bypassed as well as AC3.
Finally, that provided undecoded multichannel audio to my receiver,
which it could read and decode.
Note that this card will not play back 44,100 (CD sample rate)
multichannel .wav files from the hard drive over s/pdif to an external
decoder, as it is not a true passthrough card.
DVD's and CD's don't present a problem because the sound card knows
what type of medium it is, so it knows whether ro resample at 44100
for CD's or 48000 for DVD's. It doesn't know this about files on the
HD, so it assumes 48000 for everything.
I am looking for a card that will provide bit-accurate passthrough
from the hard drive, eliminating all resampling. Anybody?
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