Connecting Speaker Systems - Creative Platinum eX User Manual

Connecting
Speaker Systems
If you are playing games in
Windows 98 SE MS-DOS mode
(pure DOS mode), you must:
• Make sure the CD Audio
connector on the Sound Blaster
Audigy card and the Analog
Audio connector on the CD-
ROM or DVD-ROM drive are
connected.
• In addition, if you get distorted
sound, do not connect the CD
SPDIF connector on the Sound
Blaster Audigy card to the
Digital Audio connector on the
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
For instructions on how to switch between digital and analog modes, refer to topic "Digital Output Only"
of the Creative Surround Mixer Online Help.
If you have a 5.1 channel speaker system, you can upmix your stereo sources (such as CD Audio, MP3,
WMA, MIDI and Wave) to 5.1 channels by using the Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS)
technology. To upmix, you need to enable CMSS feature in PlayCenter. Refer to the PlayCenter
Online Help.
Playing Games and Music, and
Watching Movies
with 4.1 or 5.1 Digital Speaker
System of Creative or Cambridge
Minijack-to-
SoundWorks
DIN cable
Analog Line
Digital
and Rear
DIN
Inputs
Playing Games and Music, and
Watching Movies
with an analog 5.1 channel
speaker system*
5.1 Channel Analog
Speaker System*
Analog Front,
Rear and
*For example,
Center/Sub
Creative Inspire 5.1
Inputs
Analog Speakers
Figure 2-10: Connecting speaker systems to the Sound Blaster Audigy card.
Analog/Digital Out jack
Line Out
Rear Out
SB1394 port
Sound Blaster Audigy card
Triple stereo
audio cable
Connects to
the Audigy
Extension
card
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