Re: Logitech z5500 on a macbook

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:13:12 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
(in article <13s84373qjukq66@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> The headphone jack is only going to provide stereo, or at best analog 
> surround.  You need to get a digital output from your mac and not from 
> something that hooks to the headphone jack either.  Taking the analog
signal 
> from the headphone jack is never going to get you back to digital 5.1. 
I 
> don't know squat about macs but you probably should have gone to the
apple 
> store.  After you shelled over the appropriate bucks then they will fix
you 
> up.  Gotta love that proprietary apple stuff.

Apple "stuff" isn't very proprietary these days. In fact, they sup****t 
all 
of the modern standards that your standard Windows laptop sup****ts and
then 
some (Firewire is standard, for instance). What you need for most laptops 
(Windows or Mac) is a USB to surround-sound processor in order to connect
the 
Logitech system. IOW, one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/2fqgtm

Or similar. 



> "Robert" <kurtis.baxter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>
news:0f2705a0-0092-4c1c-b7d1-f8c0469b1c3b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I purchased the logitech z5500 5.1 system and i'd like to hook it up
>> to my macbook. i suppose with a dvd player or ps2, it's just a matter
>> of getting an optical cable and plugging it in.. but i'm not sure how
>> to go about doing it on a computer with only a headphone jack... do i
>> just need the optical cable (called toslink?) and then get a toslink
>> mini adapter and i'm all set? will this mini adapter work in the
>> headphone jack?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!!!!!! 
> 
> 



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