Audigy 2 + 5.1 users

[Tinker-box]

What speakers do you use and how well does it work?

I have these 5.1 speakers with a dolby digital 5.1 external box and I can only get sound output from the front right and left speakers in games. I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem? My speakers are connected to the soundcard using a radio shack adapter that creative recommened for coax conversion.

 

[soupnazi]

That's normal. You'll only get 5.1 sound when viewing DD/DTS dvd's when using the digital input.

You'll have to use 5.1 analog inputs on your reciever (if it has them) to get 5.1 sound in games and music.

 

[Tinker-box]

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That's not cool

 

[PGHammer]

Originally posted by Tinker-box
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That's not cool

That's also *not true*.

I have my Inspire 5300s connected via the *analog* connectors (as the 5300s don't support digital connections). It depends on if your DVD applications supports S/PDIF connections how you should set up the 5.1 handleage.

Here are my settings for MMC 8.8/DVD 8.8:

Audio is *Route via S/PDIF*.

Decoder is *Cyberlink/ATI Decoder*.

Because MMC/DVD 8.8 supports Dolby Digital *and* DTS ES (because the Audigy 2 ZS does), you should enable both in MMC/DVD 8.8.

 

[Moofasa~]

Originally posted by PGHammer
That's also *not true*.

I have my Inspire 5300s connected via the *analog* connectors (as the 5300s don't support digital connections). It depends on if your DVD applications supports S/PDIF connections how you should set up the 5.1 handleage.

Here are my settings for MMC 8.8/DVD 8.8:

Audio is *Route via S/PDIF*.

Decoder is *Cyberlink/ATI Decoder*.

Because MMC/DVD 8.8 supports Dolby Digital *and* DTS ES (because the Audigy 2 ZS does), you should enable both in MMC/DVD 8.8.

Wait hold up, I have Audigy 2 ZS and z640 (connected to the analog) and when I use MMC 8.8 (DVD 8.8) from ATi I can't get sound when dts enabled on the dvd, only DD. How did you get it to work?

-MoOfAsA~