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M-Audio Sonica Theater problems

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taz291819

Discussion Starter · Oct 23, 2004

Just purchased this thing and I can only get it half-way working. I'm only using the spdif out directly to my receiver.

I can play dvd's and .ts files just fine in TT2.0 and get both DD5.1 and DTS over spdif.

I can use AC3Filter in MPC and play anything I want, almost.

WMP-9 won't play anything unless I select something besides 'Digital' in the M-Audio control panel. If I select 'Digital', which I'd think is correct since I'm only using spdif, WMP-9 gives me an error saying I don't have a sound card hooked up. I've even made sure the Sonica Theater is selected as the audio device in the options menu.

Also, I can't play any DTS wave files. I've tried foobar2000 and MPC, neither will work. In foobar2000, it gives me an error if I have the Sonica set to 'Digital'. If I set it to '5.1', and play a DTS wave in foobar, all I hear is static.

Same as above with MPC regarding DTS wave files.

I can't get winamp to do anything if I have 'Digital' selected in the M-Audio control panel.

Does anyone have any experience with this device? It's driving me nuts. I had a SB Live! Value card in my pc before this, but I needed the PCI slot, so I decided to buy this, hoping for bit perfect streaming. Also, with the SB Live!, it would send everything over spdif without the need to switch any settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Edit:

The only thing I installed, regarding the hardware, is the newest driver from M-Audio. If there is some other software besides the drivers that I need, I'd appreciate it. Though, I've already installed the proper ks.dll for foobar.

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Jah-Wren Ryel

· #2 · Oct 23, 2004

I have a sonica theater and I have had no problems. But, I only use it for analog 7.1 output, not sp-dif. So that does not help you one bit.

If all you want is a "usb-to-spdif" converter, turtle beach makes one that is considerably cheaper, I think about $25 from buy.com and other places. Sorry, I don't remember the model name.

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taz291819

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 23, 2004

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Originally posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
I have a sonica theater and I have had no problems. But, I only use it for analog 7.1 output, not sp-dif. So that does not help you one bit.

If all you want is a "usb-to-spdif" converter, turtle beach makes one that is considerably cheaper, I think about $25 from buy.com and other places. Sorry, I don't remember the model name.

In the future I will use the analogs out, but for the time being, just spdif.

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taz291819

Discussion Starter · #4 · Oct 26, 2004

After much more research, I found out that the Sonica Theater cannot pass multi-channel DTS-CDs over spdif, due to it's USB 1.1 specs. I'm a little disappointed that my $50 stb dvd player can do what a $90 sound card can't. Oh well, live and learn.

Also, I still can't get WMP to do anything with it when I have the control panel selected to 'Digital'. I don't use WMP much at all, so it's not that important, but I guess it's the point of it not working properly.

I think I'm going to give this to my father so he can use it with his laptop, and purchase the Creative Audigy 2 USB sound card. At least it'll do true EAX-HD and DVD-Audio, when I finally switch to analog outs.

Guess the $50 dvd stb will stay around a little longer.

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