Audigy 2 NX digital multichannel supp

Hi,I'm?trying to set up my home theater,And I want to know, if my Audigy 2 NX supports digital output with multichannel support,From what I tried to find out I just got more confused...So my question is simple:Optical or coax... and with?shutting down the internal SB decoder,will I get a raw?multichannel?dolby signal from the digital jacks to send the amp to decode?Or is it totally impossible?Many thanks??

Even this is a very old post, I have a very similar setup so I thought I'd comment.
I have the Marantz 4600, also brand new.
I'm also using digital Coax.
I can pass through basically anything I throw at it no problems.
The Marantz does an Awesome job of rendering the audio, BTW.
PS. My marantz disables all the fancy surround processing as soon as I go 96Khz or higher, does yours?
Anyway, it Works with both PowerDVD (5 and 6) and WinDVD, in these applications I need to set them to SPDIF out. I also set the card to digital only mode - don't know if this is important.
You might want to try dvd genie to unlock a few extra features of your DVD player software.
Remember that the DVD you play needs to be DTS or prologic or some other format supported by the Marantz, and also playing the main feature. Many DVD's use stereo PCM in the menu (even if you select DTS/DD5.), and don't switch until the actual movie starts.
Also. you NEED USB 2.0 for it to work, verify your OS and drivers, etc. USB. does not have the bandwidth. If your NX is a bit older you might need to grab the latest driver from creative and/or flash the NX's firmware to get it to support USB 2.0.

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If you can link to the cable/adaptor I would need that would be great!Message Edited by asharabi98 on 05-29-2006 :23 AM

Any stereo cable with jack on one end and RCA conenctors at the other is fine. It will not damage the receiver. Something like this (use one of the RCA only - I think is the white one for front speakers):
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Read the FAQ about digital connection and be prepared to have only stereo sound in games because Creative soundcards cannot send surround sound from games over digital connection.
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Solution to my Audigy 4 Digital Output probs... please make a stic

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Dennis,
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http://us.creative.com/products/prod...0&product=0375
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Fuzzylogic,
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Model of my soundcard is Audigy LS, as You have written above.
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