GooseChaser

I have Audigy Platinum and I just found out that my CD player hooked to line in on the back of my audigy was taking from the sound quality...badly whether it's the line in plug on audigy or the cd player itself does not matter since I am buying a CD changer anyway. Since I can't buy online and my budget is $150 to $200, Sony CDP-CE375 was recommanded at Klipsch forum. there are two outputs on this CD changer; optical and RCA output. optical is occupied by PS2 so I can watch DVDs and play games with my computer speakers without having to buy extra equipment like Klipsch DD5.1 or a reciever. so my only other option is to use RCA connection. so my question is; will this affect the sound quality such as statics or noticable difference in quality in the actual sound against optical in quality? and does AUX in 2 have quarks like crackles or just a plain infidel connection?

Dell Demension 8100
Windows XP pro
Intel 850 chipset with CL9 BIOS
Rambus 384mb RDRAM
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm drive
PNY Geforce4 Ti 4200 64mb O/C to 275MHZ/555MHZ
with Detonator XP 30.82
SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum with Audigy2 driver&software
Linksys LNE100TX fast Ethernet adapter v4
Lucent Win modem
Klipsch Promedia 5.1

DallasStar

From my experience with the Audigy, I noticed slight "hissing" when the line-in is enabled. That is the only input I've ever had trouble with.




btw.... does the PS2 decode DD51 in movies too?? (cuz if it does... I just saved myself a couple hundred bucks!)

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GooseChaser

yeah it does dolby digital 5.1 but not DTS. some PS2 games have their cut scenes, specifically FMV in dolby digital like FFX but DTS is required for surround sound in the actual game like GTA vice city and medal of honor: frontline... I think.

Yes, I have my PS2 hooked with optical digital to audigy drive's optical in, and I can watch all DVDs with 5.1 since dolby digital is included every movies whether the studio wants to push DTS or not dolby digital is the standard. it sounds good to me read the post called, "audigy/audigy 2 dolby digital problem".

the original driver & software CD doesn't support SPDIF in decode so u are going to have to download driver update for audigy platinum for Windows XP if u have't already

to enble this feature, go to audioHQ, double click on Device Controls, under digital input tab, u'll find 3 choices; default, SPDIF bypass, and AC-3 SPDIF-in decode. pick AC-3 SPDIF decode and u are set.

If u use audigy2 driver&software suite on ur audigy, u will get additional decoding features like dynamic range compression, dolby pro logic, and dolby digital EX. My audigy is working properly with audigy2 dirver&softwares and actually resolved my EAX advanced HD freezing problem, plus improved the quality of sound in general especially noticable when listening to music.

darn after writing all this I see u have audigy gamer, oh well...