Digital sound: does my SPDIf bracket work or not? How do I get my digital speakers to work?

[Ionizer86]

I've got this set of digital BA-735 speakers. I've had it plugged in the versajack (set to digital mode) in my Santa Cruz for a while.

Now, I'm trying to get back to the issue of my digital SPDIF via bracket on my 8RDA+ (MCP-T)

There's an optical in and an optical out on it. There's an RCA style SPDIF out, and a switch (that I can point towards either side). Like this except with a switch between the opticals and RCA.

Now for some reason, no matter what, as long as digital out is enabled in the Soundstorm panel, I get a continuous red beam in the optical out (I assume it's working and that the beam should appear constant in brightness).

Once I plug in my speakers via RCA cable to the bracket's RCA SPDIF port, the optical goes out. I assume signal is getting through to the speakers. But I don't hear anything. I've toggled on and off Dolby Surround encoding and Dolby Digital encoding. No go at all.

Help/advice?

 

[tapir]

i have the same pair of speakers, but i have an Audigy. For the digital out to work on my Audigy, I have to tell it in Creative's controls to use "Digital Output Only". It sounds like you're doing the equivalent action for Soundstorm. Dolby Encoding and such won't help, the BA-735 doesn't have a dolby decoder. Are you sure you're outputting in 2.1 stereo mode?

 

[Ionizer86]

In the panel, there's choices between, headphones and 2-->6 speakers. I set it to 2 speakers, and I've tried digital only. I'm not sure, but is it possible that the digital output from Soundstorm is a bit different than from Audigies and Santa Cruzes?

 

[Ionizer86]

Bump: tried more switch flipping and control panel-ing.