How to digital cd audio?

[mooseAndSquirrel]

I'm confused. I have a soundblaster audigy and cambridge fps2000 speakers. There's a digital out minijack on the card and a DIN connector on the subwoofer. So how do I configure things so that XP plays audio CD's and MP3's digitally?

In control panel I have selected "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device". But if I play a CD it's analog - I can mute the CD digital line with no effect (or even unplug the DIN cable).

So what am I missing?

 

[MrBond]

<< In control panel I have selected "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device". But if I play a CD it's analog - I can mute the CD digital line with no effect (or even unplug the DIN cable). >>

The input you're muting is the input for the sound card. If you'd have the digital out plugged into that, muting it would cause the CD sound to be muted.

I think you're playing it digitally, maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds like you did everything correctly.

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

But I know that I'm not - because if I play a CD and then unplug the Digital In connector on the fps2000 subwoofer, there is no effect on the output.

And I do have the digital connector from the CD to the SPDIF on the soundcard, I just checked.

??

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

OK, well I checked the "digital output only" box on the mixer and now if I diconnect the spdif cable all goes quiet, so this is working across the digital interface.

Now my question is - should I do this? I don't hear much of any difference in the sound with digital only checked or not, except that the digital only seems quieter and maybe less "bright".