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by **Phillip Arche** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:17:05

Can any of you learned gentlemen (or ladies) point me to information about
digital sound cards and/or speakers. I bought a set of Boston Acoustics
speakers at what seemed a bargain price, only to find that they have a
digital input only, and of course won't work on my S/B Live. Does anyone
know if the Live or Audigy digital cards will drive these speakers, or
another soundcard with digital out? Should I just put this down to
experience and put them in the spare room with the other "impulse purchases"
(like the 3D glasses that I can't get to work with my GeForce3)?
TIA.
Phillip...

by **Jone Tytlandsvi** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:28:46

If you have the original S/B Live, you need an addon card to get SPDIF
(Digital) Out. But I think there is SPDIF out on the board, just no
connector for it on the back.
The Live 5.1 has SPDIF out on the back, and I would be supprised if the
Audigy didn't have it.

Jone.

by **Atom** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:13:33

What you need is something like a Hoontech daughter card .
Go to www.hoontech.com and look for the DB11 or DB111 cards.

Cheers

AT

by **Damien Smit** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:08:09

The Live value has digital out - works well when connected to my dolby
digital receiver...

by **Obak** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:25:51

depends how old the soundblaste live! value is. the early versions lacked the
digital out but the ones you get now (CT4830) have the yellow digital out.
its a mini plug so you need to buy new cable. but they're easy to find at
radioshack or similar.

and be carefull. the live! digital out is 5v. the digital spdif standard is
0.5v. so if you're receiver/speakers aren't build 'above' standard they could
get fried, but i've never heard of this happening.

but if digial out is all you need, sb live! value for $30 is hard to go past.
i've got it hooked up to a yamaha DD receiver and it sounds fantastic :) but
the 'dolby' part only works with dvd;s. but the rest of the time it still
sounds good :)

Obake

by **Phillip Arche** » Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:00:46

Thanks for the info, all. I think I'll buy an Audigy if I can afford it, or
a Live 5.1 if I can't - Hell no! I'll prolly buy an Audigy even if I can't
afford it ;-)
Cheers...
Phillip...

by **The Other Larr** » Sun, 16 Dec 2001 03:04:11

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.

Full digital features, including support for Dolby Digital 5.1, and it's
only $79.

Not only that, but the card and it's drivers actually work, and it's very
stable under Win2K/XP.

Creative, well, that's a different story. I've given up on all products
Creative, not just their pain-in-the-ass SBLive cards.

-Larry

> > Can any of you learned gentlemen (or ladies) point me to information
about
> > digital sound cards and/or speakers.

> Thanks for the info, all. I think I'll buy an Audigy if I can afford it,
or
> a Live 5.1 if I can't - Hell no! I'll prolly buy an Audigy even if I can't
> afford it ;-)
> Cheers...
> Phillip...

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Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

Digital output soundcard (slightly OT)

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