[Pesto Sauce]

I posted this already in the HT Gaming forum because it's partially a home theater question and partially a PC question.


I have an original Audigy EX, and have connected it to my home theater's preamp/processor (a Lexicon MC 12) using RCA Coax. But I do not seem to be getting any of the EAX sound effects coming through on my home theater's speakers.


I seem to recall somewhere reading that the Audigy does not pass through its EAX effects to an external preamp/processor. Wanted to see if that's true, and if so, if it's true of their latest generation cards. If it's not true, I'm looking for any suggestions to get the sound effects on my home theater.


Thanks.

 

[jeffleonard]

You have to have a receiver that accepts multichannel direct input. Then you just hook up the analog outs of the Audigy to the receiver's inputs.


If you output games through SPDIF digital out, it just gets sent as 2 channel. It can't encode DD on the fly. So, for games, you use the multi-channel outs, and you get multi speaker EAX effects. For DVDs, send it out via SPDIF, and let your receiver decode the DD/DTS stream.


In a nutshell, if your receiver doesn't have multi-channel inputs, you are stuck.


VVV Yep. Even Creative says so.

 

[jasallen]

Creative unfortunately cannot do any on the fly encoding to dolby digital which is what would be required to give the external pre-amp something it could understand. The ONLY way, barring some hack I'm unaware of, to get the full EAX effects is to have the creative card output the 6 channels post processed to an amp or powered speakers. I spent most of this last weekend researching the issue myself. You find a better answer, please let me know!


Creative telling the story:

http://us.creative.com/ ] http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=238,E=0000000000029336335,K=1156,Sxi=0,Case=obj(3815),Kb =ww_english,VARSET=ws: http://us.creative.com/ [/url]