I just got everything but the sub and am exploring how everything works. I'm new to all of this and am confused.
I bought th X-Mystique as per suggestions as the Dolby Digital Live encoding sounded necessary for gaming. It seems to me now as if perhaps the reciever does this encoding also via PLIIx and perhaps I would have been fine with My SPdif out...but I digress.
I am connecting to the reciever via Toslink optical. So far I've only tried music but if I enable 5.1 Encoding on the card it doesn't use all 5 speakers or surround
If however I use PCM 2 CH at the card level then all my surrounds seem to work at the reciever. I guess my question is which are the optimal settings for me? Also I have a choice of 44/48 or 96khz out all of which work but I'm unclear about the advantages/disadvantages of these.
It seems as if I encode at the card and used the direct setting at the reciever it would work but it doesn't. The reciever recognizes what I'm sending it (PCM or Dolby) but will only do surround with the PCM so far. I've only tried mp3s so far but I understood that The DDL would encode that to surround (PLIIx Does this just fine)
Please excuse my ignorance
I'm very happy overall but would really like to get the most(use my equipment to it's best advantage) out of my system, meager as it, it's a huge upgrade from my 2.1 monsoon mm1100's. Any and all advice greatly appreciated. I'm also planning to game and watch movies with this setup.
I bought th X-Mystique as per suggestions as the Dolby Digital Live encoding sounded necessary for gaming. It seems to me now as if perhaps the reciever does this encoding also via PLIIx and perhaps I would have been fine with My SPdif out...but I digress.
I am connecting to the reciever via Toslink optical. So far I've only tried music but if I enable 5.1 Encoding on the card it doesn't use all 5 speakers or surround
If however I use PCM 2 CH at the card level then all my surrounds seem to work at the reciever. I guess my question is which are the optimal settings for me? Also I have a choice of 44/48 or 96khz out all of which work but I'm unclear about the advantages/disadvantages of these.
It seems as if I encode at the card and used the direct setting at the reciever it would work but it doesn't. The reciever recognizes what I'm sending it (PCM or Dolby) but will only do surround with the PCM so far. I've only tried mp3s so far but I understood that The DDL would encode that to surround (PLIIx Does this just fine)
Please excuse my ignorance
I'm very happy overall but would really like to get the most(use my equipment to it's best advantage) out of my system, meager as it, it's a huge upgrade from my 2.1 monsoon mm1100's. Any and all advice greatly appreciated. I'm also planning to game and watch movies with this setup.
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