5.1 Audio What Where and Why?

I want to get 5.1 out of my macbookpro what is the best way of doing it digitally? what are the best systems (speakers) and what cables and connectors do i use?
regards

Simon,
Follow this link to a retailer in the UK that sells the cable you need,
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/108-100.html
If you already have a toslink cable, use a 3.5mm adapter they also sell for about two sterling.
- Saw your other post as well... basically, the red light that transmit the digital signal optically has no problem going through the hollow hole at the end of the 3.5mm adapter and therefore the minijack can be analog (metal to metal transfer) or digital...optically...
Cheers
p.s... intel's "HD audio" actually is supposed to support upto 7.1, not that I've ever encountered a source for that many channels :-P. The macbook pro is very smart in every respect though, as soon as it sees the optical connected, it switches over to a bitstream optical signal and transmits digital audio that your receiver can decode into 5.1 as long as it has a dolby digital decoder, or DTS if you're watching a movie that is encoded in DTS.

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