On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:00 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
(in article
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> On Feb 26, 3:30 pm, 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. 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.bax...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>
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>>>> 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.
I'm sorry, but how are you gonna put a $15 no-name sound card into a PC
Notebook? Notebooks need outboard surround decoders too. There are cheaper
ones, for the Mac and the PC. I chose the $80 one as an example because
its
FireWire.
Oh, and I can put a $15 PC sound card into a Mac tower too because it has
-wait for it- PCI card slots just like a Windows box!
--
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
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