Hopefully someone?s got an idea. I just built a new system and stuck an Audigy 2 in there (my old one used a Live!). I?ve got Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 Digital (aka 5.1 speakers with Dolby Digital decoder) that I?ve been using for maybe 3 years with my Live!.
I used to have it connected from the Live! to the speakers with two analog minijack cables, which transmitted all 5.1 speakers. Well, the Audigy 2 has THREE analog minijack connections to do 5.1. So I?ve got no way to get sound out of all 5.1 speakers with analog.
That being the case, I decided to switch to digital. My speakers have a regular RCA type SPDIF connection for digital, or a digital-din connector I guess it?s called. Since the Audigy 2 only has a minijack output for digital, I bought an adaptor to go from minijack to RCA. Specifically it says it?s a ?Mono-to-mono Shielded Audio Adaptor-Accepts phono plug, fits 1/8th mono phone jack?. There was also a similar looking adaptor at the store that said it was for stereo. I didn?t know which to buy, since obviously neither is labeled as exactly what I want. It?s not mono or stereo, it?s a data stream?
Well, I hooked it up, and now I?m only getting audio from my left and right speakers. The card seems to still be processing the other channels, as they?re missing when I play games (audio just disappears for things happening directly in front of me), but it?s like it?s not transmitting the center, left/right rear, and subwoofer at all.
I fiddled with software settings, to make sure it wasn?t that, but it doesn?t seem to be. I suppose it could be the adaptor, but it seems like it would just let the data ?pass through?, and anyway it seems like it wouldn?t work at ALL. I don?t see how an adaptor could strip out my extra channels from a data stream. Also my speakers are all okay, I can hear all of them when I hit the ?test? button on my decoder box.
Anyone have any ideas? I?m kind of ticked, since this is both a sound card and speakers MADE my Creative Labs
I used to have it connected from the Live! to the speakers with two analog minijack cables, which transmitted all 5.1 speakers. Well, the Audigy 2 has THREE analog minijack connections to do 5.1. So I?ve got no way to get sound out of all 5.1 speakers with analog.
That being the case, I decided to switch to digital. My speakers have a regular RCA type SPDIF connection for digital, or a digital-din connector I guess it?s called. Since the Audigy 2 only has a minijack output for digital, I bought an adaptor to go from minijack to RCA. Specifically it says it?s a ?Mono-to-mono Shielded Audio Adaptor-Accepts phono plug, fits 1/8th mono phone jack?. There was also a similar looking adaptor at the store that said it was for stereo. I didn?t know which to buy, since obviously neither is labeled as exactly what I want. It?s not mono or stereo, it?s a data stream?
Well, I hooked it up, and now I?m only getting audio from my left and right speakers. The card seems to still be processing the other channels, as they?re missing when I play games (audio just disappears for things happening directly in front of me), but it?s like it?s not transmitting the center, left/right rear, and subwoofer at all.
I fiddled with software settings, to make sure it wasn?t that, but it doesn?t seem to be. I suppose it could be the adaptor, but it seems like it would just let the data ?pass through?, and anyway it seems like it wouldn?t work at ALL. I don?t see how an adaptor could strip out my extra channels from a data stream. Also my speakers are all okay, I can hear all of them when I hit the ?test? button on my decoder box.
Anyone have any ideas? I?m kind of ticked, since this is both a sound card and speakers MADE my Creative Labs
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