- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: manitou
You would need an Advanced AV Pack with these cables, as the AV Pack and the HDTV pack are the only ones which have an S/PDIF output. There should be a socket on the pack marked S/PDIF, or Optical, and you plug one end of the cable into that. You plug the other end into your speakers, into one of the sockets marked 'Optical'.
Just go and have a look around at the back of the decoder that came with your speakers... you should be able to find the optical input there. And remember to enable Dolby Digital as well... when I first hooked my speakers up, I thought it would auto-detect DD or DTS signals, but I ended up watching movies in cruddy Dolby Pro Logic II. Not that there's anything really wrong with it, but why make do with second best if you can have Dolby Digital?
Well that's the thing, there is no decoder. All the speaker cables (including the center cable) hook into the bass via RCA cables. Then, from out of the center speaker comes a different kind of cable used to hook them into the source. Since they are computer speakers, the cables are small, headphone-like cables which would normally hook up to the computer. Some computers which have a Dolby 5.1 soundcard would take all three of the cables, while others take two or one. With the adapter that came with the speakers, only two of these cables hook into one end, while the red and white RCA cables that come with the Xbox hook into the other end. Is there some sort of hookup with the Advanced AV pack that will take all three of these headphone-cables?
[Edited on 9/2/2004 7:41:27 AM]