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CHAINTECH 7.1 ENVY24 AV710

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clearstyle

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can someone please help me out on this card. its driving me crazy. i just recieve this today and im have problems with it. i install the card with latest drivers and there are no sound coming out from my speakers. i have The Boston Acoustics BA7500 speakers it uses digital out. but for some reason it work fine with headphone. the speakers work fine with my audigy 2 also. i tried messing around with the audio deck still no luck. my only guess is the speaker maybe its not compatible??
 
Most likely not related, but I had to send back my AV-710 because I stopped getting output to the speakers.... TONS of troubleshooting involved, and nothing.. the card was messed!
 
one thing i havent done. testing it out on a different speaker. ill do it tomorrow on my cousin computer. if its the same, then its the sound card.
 
The lastest AV-710 driver is no good. Go find the Envy24_Family_Drivers_V143d from VIA arena. Install that, open up Audio Deck, Digital Out tab, Enable High-Sample Rate... wait a minute, the Boston Acoustics BA7500 has a coaxial digital connector. How you gonna plug that to the the AV-710's optical port?
 
i forgot the mention i already tried the 143d drivers still nothing. about the coaxial digital conector, i have no idea whats the difference between that and the others. so is it the connector?? why would it work with the audigy 2 and the sound blaster 5.1 card?
 
What ribbon is trying to say is that your speakers are probably not bad, just you have them setup wrong. This is simplified by a receiver. You dont' need a denon, he just loves his. You can get a $100 receiver and it would work just fine. Sorry ribbon 😉
 
For going the cheap route he could just save that $100, and use analog? What's the point of using external DACs unless they're good ones?
 
I would say you are more limited by your speaker quality than your receiver. And IMO your receive is WAYYYYY over what your speakers need ribbon. Its all a matter of preference. I have a $150 receiver, and right now my speakers are limiting me. When I go up and make some better ones, then an upgrade might be worth it. However, for now, a receiver is more for ease of connection of mulitple devices.

That said, play around with the settings of your speakers as I highly doubt all the speakers are simply broken.
 
I'm running a pair on each channel (that's 14) and the Denon isn't even rated for a 4 ohm nominal load. 😛 Not to mention the crossover on the BR-1s has a large insertion loss, so the Denon provides just enough power and headroom.



His speakers, according to the link he provided, have analog input. Why not a plain old non-digital cable?

 
aha, well there is converters....so thats an option or jsut use analog. Which provides more benefits ont he computer anyway. So now I that I am with you, Go with analog connectors?
 
guys im just going to get some new speakers instead, one with optical output. nothing spendy just good enough for listening to music.
 
Clearstyle... digital out is NOT going to be better with new speakers...

The DACs on the AV710 are decent, and anything built into some speakers you buy will not be as good as thes you already have!
 
We all think you should try using an analog cable with your existing speakers first 🙂

FYI, if you want surround sound in games you need to use analog cables anyway. Game audio is only PCM stereo when you use a digital connector, it is not Dolby 5.1. Only Athlon XP SoundStorm motherboard audio does real-time Dolby digital encoding.
 
Yep...
SoundStorm was the shit!
Foolish to not include it in the chipset anymore. it would only take about 800k transistors.. The 2200/2050 MCPs are 22.4 million...


Seriously dude, save your money, use analog... and if you want better sound, save up for at least one of these Denon 1705's for $300
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I have about half of them used... I doubt I could max that out in the next 5 years.

You know what though? a Denon AVR-3805 will run you $900, but 3 years from now it's still gonna be a beast. 10 years from now it's still gonna be a beast. Can you say that about computer equipment?
 
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