Auidgy 2 - Bass management in analog out?

[DaveSimmons]

Do the Audigy drivers let you redirect bass to the subwoofer in the analog outs like the bass management in a home theater receiver? Does it let you pick the cutoff frequency for the speakers?

Most HT receivers don't have management functions for the multichannel analog in, so making an analog connection from the Audigy requires the audigy to handle bass if the HT has a typical sub / small sats setup.

 

[Pariah]

In order to utilitize bass management for the Audigy 2 you have to enable 5.1 speakers or more even if you don't have that many. You can set the crossover, but it is a universal setting not a per channel setting.

 

[DaveSimmons]

In order to utilitize bass management for the Audigy 2 you have to enable 5.1 speakers or more even if you don't have that many. You can set the crossover, but it is a universal setting not a per channel setting.

so it won't help for a 2.1 setup and for 5.1 you can't tune for different front / rear speaker sizes? Not ideal, but probably not an issue for most people who have the small-sats setup.

It's also too bad that 3 generations after the first "live" they still aren't doing on-the-fly dolby or DTS encoding of game audio for the digital out. One cable would certainly be more convenient than 6.

 

[Pariah]

so it won't help for a 2.1 setup and for 5.1 you can't tune for different front / rear speaker sizes? Not ideal, but probably not an issue for most people who have the small-sats setup.

It's irrelevant for almost all computer users because you have to have a seperate subwoofer out for it to be of any use, and very few PC speakers have a seperate sub plug, certainly no 2.1's do. All but a couple computer speaker sets I've seen run everything through the subwoofer which determines the crossover. Obviously in that configuration, bass managment is worthless.

It's also too bad that 3 generations after the first "live" they still aren't doing on-the-fly dolby or DTS encoding of game audio for the digital out.

I'm not aware of any PC audio component capable of DTS encoding.