On Feb 27, 3:59=A0pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:11:16 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
> (in article
> <51f75cdb-bcb8-4bec-b1b7-3eba7bca3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
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> > On Feb 26, 5:19=A0pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:00 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
> >> (in article
> >> <7167ccbf-3234-47ce-aeae-d07515033...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> >>> 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
analo=
g
> >>>>> surround. =A0You need to get a digital output from your mac and
not =
from
> >>>>> something that hooks to the headphone jack either. =A0Taking the
ana=
log
> >>>>> 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=
> >>>>> apple
> >>>>> store. =A0After you shelled over the appropriate bucks then they
wil=
l fix
> >>>>> you
> >>>>> up. =A0Gotta love that proprietary apple stuff.
>
> >>>> 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
an=
d
> >>>> then
> >>>> some (Firewire is standard, for instance). What you need for most
lap=
tops
> >>>> (Windows or Mac) is a USB to surround-sound processor in order to
con=
nect
> >>>> 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
u=
p
> >>>>>> to my macbook. i suppose with a dvd player or ps2, it's just a
matt=
er
> >>>>>> of getting an optical cable and plugging it in.. but i'm not sure
h=
ow
> >>>>>> 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
toslin=
k
> >>>>>> 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"
swin=
g!
>
> >>>> Fred Berry
> >>>> Professor of Music
> >>>> Stanford University
>
> >>> Yea, $80, swell. =A0No-name pc sound card for $15. =A0I'll stick to
pc=
s.
>
> >> 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
chea=
per
> >> 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
h=
as
> >> -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- Hide quoted text -
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> >> - Show quoted text -
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> > Oh wait, you need drivers too? =A0That's too bad. =A0Yea, mac wants to
b=
e
> > a pc but it just can't.
>
> Actually, the Mac doesn't need drivers for the USB or Firewire 5.1
decoder=
(
> a Windows laptop needs that outboard decoder too). But I notice that you
> ignored that point.
>
> Macs and PCs are just two sides of the same coin. One has advantages in
on=
e
> area while the other has advantages in other areas. Mac has the better
OS,=
in
> my not-so-humble opinion, but Windows has more of the popular business
> software titles. I'm pretty system agnostic and use both. A computer is
a
> tool, not a religion.
I found out that my macbook has a "combined optical digital output/
audio line out"... so maybe I do just need the toslink to optical mini
adaptor... in the mean time i decided to hook the speakers up to my
ps2, and now i'm too lazy to disconnect them all and move them back to
my computer room. I think I'll keep them where they are. They really
are great speakers.
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