On Feb 26, 3:30=A0pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:13:12 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
> (in article <13s84373qjuk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> > The headphone jack is only going to provide stereo, or at best analog
> > surround. =A0You need to get a digital output from your mac and not
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> > something that hooks to the headphone jack either. =A0Taking the
analog =
signal
> > from the headphone jack is never going to get you back to digital 5.1.
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=A0I
> > don't know squat about macs but you probably should have gone to the
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le
> > store. =A0After you shelled over the appropriate bucks then they will
fi=
x you
> > up. =A0Gotta love that proprietary apple stuff.
>
> Apple "stuff" isn't very proprietary these days. In fact, they sup****t
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all
> of the modern standards that your standard Windows laptop sup****ts and
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> 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.bax...@[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!!!!!!
>
> --
> Do you know the difference between students like you, amateurs and
> professional jazz musicians? Student bands and amateurs "almost" swing!
>
> Fred Berry
> Professor of Music
> Stanford University
Yea, $80, swell. No-name pc sound card for $15. I'll stick to pcs.
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