Audio Quality in S/P-DIF & Regular Analog Cabling

KraXed112 · Jul 28, 2004, 11:03 PM

I just recently bought Klipsch Promedia GMX D-5.1's without actually reading about it first... kinda bad cos i plan on using this for pc only.. and after i bought it, i read that it was made towards consoles.. but hopefully not all is lost.. i got a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum card
and i read that these set of speakers doesn't have the seperate analog inputs and that if i want to use 5 channel i have to use a rca jack.
whats the quality diffrence? will i be able to control them seperatly thru the creative's audio panel?

I bought it for 200 and i know some other ppl got it too.. should i sell em off and buy something like the z-680's?

And the reason i bought them.. was.. its for doom3 only basically.. but i think doom is a 6 channel game
what would be the best bet to get for it?

**dj_stick** · Jul 29, 2004, 01:05 AM

the RCA lead will NOT provide 6 channel sound unless the signal is encoded with dolby digital. The soundblaster live does not do thise, however the nforce 2 chipset with soundstorm does

Jul 28, 2004, 11:03 PM	#1
KraXed112 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 90 Rep Power: 0	Audio Quality in S/P-DIF & Regular Analog Cabling I just recently bought Klipsch Promedia GMX D-5.1's without actually reading about it first... kinda bad cos i plan on using this for pc only.. and after i bought it, i read that it was made towards consoles.. but hopefully not all is lost.. i got a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum card and i read that these set of speakers doesn't have the seperate analog inputs and that if i want to use 5 channel i have to use a rca jack. whats the quality diffrence? will i be able to control them seperatly thru the creative's audio panel? I bought it for 200 and i know some other ppl got it too.. should i sell em off and buy something like the z-680's? And the reason i bought them.. was.. its for doom3 only basically.. but i think doom is a 6 channel game what would be the best bet to get for it? __________________ AMD 4800 X2 / ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 2024 Corsair PC3200 CPT BFG Tech 7900 GTX 512 Pioneer A04 DVD/RW 1 x 120GB Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive (8MB Cache, 7200rpm) 5 x 200GB Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive (8MB Cache, 7200rpm) Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum, Logitech Z-680 Antec TrueControl 480W, RAIDMAX 420W Coolermaster CM-Stacker STC-T01 Case (Crossflow Fan + Extra 4in3 Module)