On Feb 26, 5:19=A0pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:00 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
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> <7167ccbf-3234-47ce-aeae-d07515033...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Feb 26, 3:30=A0pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:13:12 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
> >> (in article <13s84373qjuk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> 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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om
> >>> something that hooks to the headphone jack either. =A0Taking the
analo=
g
> >>> signal
> >>> from the headphone jack is never going to get you back to digital
5.1.=
=A0I
> >>> don't know squat about macs but you probably should have gone to the
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pple
> >>> store. =A0After you shelled over the appropriate bucks then they
will =
fix you
> >>> up. =A0Gotta love that proprietary apple stuff.
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> >> Apple "stuff" isn't very proprietary these days. In fact, they
sup****t =
=A0all
> >> of the modern standards that your standard Windows laptop sup****ts
and =
then
> >> some (Firewire is standard, for instance). What you need for most
lapto=
ps
> >> (Windows or Mac) is a USB to surround-sound processor in order to
conne=
ct
> >> the
> >> Logitech system. IOW, one of these:
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> >>http://tinyurl.com/2fqgtm
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> >> Or similar.
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> >>> "Robert" <kurtis.bax...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>news:0f2705a0-0092-4c1c-b7d1-f8c0469b1c3b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>> Hi all,
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> >>>> 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
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> >>>> 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?
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> >>>> Thanks a lot!!!!!!
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> >> --
> >> Do you know the difference between students like you, amateurs and
> >> professional jazz musicians? Student bands and amateurs "almost"
swing!=
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> >> Fred Berry
> >> Professor of Music
> >> Stanford University
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> > Yea, $80, swell. =A0No-name pc sound card for $15. =A0I'll stick to
pcs.=
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> 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
it=
s
> FireWire.
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> 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!
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> --
> 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- Hide quoted text -
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Oh wait, you need drivers too? That's too bad. Yea, mac wants to be
a pc but it just can't.
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