surround sound questions. 1. There's 4 kinds of creative sound blaster audigy 2s + the USB ones. I noticed that the internal ones have 7.1 surround sound except for the Audigy 2 Platinum I think. It's really hard to tell which one is better because I never...

that's what it's all about. I don't care about EAX and other things. I just care about positioning and surround sound. I have the card and a surround sound system for this reason. Other games and DVDs are fantastic. But Crysis just doesn't seem to have good...

You need to have a source that has surround sound information in it, and you need a device that is able to decode the surround sound format and route the various signal to the 6 different amplifiers and speakers. If you do not have surround sound information,...

the sound being output at all. Sound cards and other surround audio systems can currently drive up to 7.1 speakers and even that is more of a joke because quite frankly, very few have the room to properly set up a 7.1 speaker system. The quality of the sound...

you are into buying soundcards in the first place. Do not buy 5.1 surround sound headset btw, they are all terrible. The rear speakers are always tinny and terrible sounding with questionable sound placement. Usually you can only judge whats behind you by...

of 7.1 surround sound. My question is whether I need to worry about the "quality" of a sound chip/card if I'm planning to hook SPDIF out on the HTPC to an optical input on my Onkyo receiver. I see a 7.1 SPDIF sound card from Chaintech for $20, whereas...

a normal Audigy 2). I've never had surround sound, and only recently did I figure out why; the stupid digital cable only puts out 2.1 sound. So my question is what cable do I need to get 5.1 sound going? The speakers are Creative DTT2500. What type of digital...

and connect >it to the s/pdif (ac3) input of sound card. Yup: it really is almost that simple. The one remaining caveat is that even if you've got a sound card (or, even worse, on-board sound) with S/PDIF in, it may resample all the incoming audio,...

SB Live! Platinum Setup. I just got the Klipsch Promedia 5.1 personal audio system. Oooooh. I upgraded from the Altec-Lansing ADA 70. The Altecs have better highs, but the Klipsch have thundering bass and, of course, 6 speaker surround sound. My question...

about 3 different movies tonight and wasn't getting the problem. Weird. On another note I have to run about 40 feet of speaker wire for my surround sound. My question is do I need some heavier gauge wire, or can I use the stock wire and splice it together....