Positioning Your Speakers; Enhancing Your Sound Blaster Live! Experience; Playing Games And Music; Watching Dvd Movies Or Playing Dvd Games - Creative CT4760 Getting Started

Positioning Your
Speakers
Enhancing Your
Sound Blaster Live!
Experience

Playing Games and Music

Watching DVD Movies or
Playing DVD Games
If you are using four speakers, place them so that they
form the corners of a square with you exactly in the
center (as in Figure 1-4) and that they are angled
toward you. Make sure the computer monitor is not
blocking the path of your front speakers. You may want
to adjust the relative positions of the speakers until you
get the audio experience you like best. If you have a
subwoofer, place the unit in a corner of the room for
the best bass experience.
The Sound Blaster Live! card alone will most undoubtedly give you endless hours of listening
pleasure. To further enhance your SB Live! experience, there are several upgrade options
(available separately) depending on your needs. The following provides some information on the
available options to consider. The diagrams on the next two pages show how these options can
be connected to your SB Live! card.
With FourPointSurround or DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital speaker systems from Cambridge
SoundWorks, you can experience crystal clear gaming sequences or music from the Digital
DIN connection. A minijack-to-DIN cable is bundled with the speaker set for this connection.
To watch DVD movies on your PC, why not get Creative's PC-DVD kit which comes with a
PC-DVD drive and Encore MPEG2 decoder card? You can connect your Encore Dxr2, Encore
Dxr3 or MPEG2 decoder card to an external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder such as DeskTop
Theater speaker systems and disconnect the Sound Blaster Live! card's Aux In connector from
the decoder card's Audio Out connector. However, if an external Dolby Digital (AC-3)
decoder speaker system is not available, this connection is necessary.
* Information continues on page1-8.
Sub-
woofer
Computer
monitor
Front left
speaker
You
Rear left Rear right
speaker speaker
Figure 1-4: Recommended speaker positions
for the 4-speaker configuration.
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Front right
speaker