Audigy 2 ZS to Home Thea

I've read many answers and some <EM>Creative</EM> articles but I havent been able to get DTS sound in my home theater system, out of the DVDs played on my PC.
I have plugged a 3.5mm mono-to-RCA from the digital out jack on the Audity 2 ZS to the digial coaxial in on my home theater, and on the Audio HQ - Device Controls - Decoder, I have activated the SPDIF Pass-Through. And I still haven't been able to decode with my home theater. I have also checked the Home Theater's manual and everything is right.
Is there anything else I haven't done? Is there somethng else I have to change on the DVD software or on the sound card?
I would apreciate your answer. Thank you.

DTS is one of my requirements. DTS is very impressi've with my Eagles, LoTR (2 DVD edition), and "Master and Commander ... DVD's.
My sound system is connected directly to the Audigy2zs Platinum. I built my break-out cables from the "portable DVD" cables available from PartExpress ($6) because I needed TR (single channel) phono plug output for my DI boxes.
My sound system is comprised of 7 amplifier / transducer pairs organized a in 6. mono-pole configuration.
Fronts - VoTT certified A-0's by Altec Lansing (circa 970, recycled and rebuilt)
LFE - TL440M Matinee series by Electro Voice (recycled) deli'vers a whooping 26dB SPL continuous.
Center, rear, and sides - Resolve 65a studio reference monitors by Samson / Hartke (some recycled).
Audigy2 bass management (redirection) set to 28 Hz.
The sound field is as good as I've ever experienced. The Audigy is a great deocoder/DAC for a theater, home or otherwise. No audible noise, even at very low levels. An unbelievable dynamic range. The cannon/grape shot sound effects of Master and Commander are sufficiently real that it is hard to override the "duck and cover" instinct. DTS is much better than DD. The DTS-ES matrix upmix with the THX calibration of the Audigy2 is nothing short of amazing.

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I've seen a lot of posts on this subject, but have seen a number of different answers. Hopefully I can get a definiti've answer...
I have an Audigy 2 ZS card (ordered as part of a Dell E50) in my PC and want to connect it to my home theater system. The home theater system has both analog, digital coax, and digital optical inputs. I want to get the best possible sound quality coming out of the PC to play music, thus I would like to have a digital connection between the PC and receiver.
The question I have is specifically what type of connector do I need to make this digital connection. I have seen people mention using a regular mini-plug to RCA connector, but didn't really say whether that got a digital signal or not.
I've looked on the Creative web site a bit, and saw some cables, but didn't know for sure which one was the right one. Please advise specifically what kind of cable I should get for this.
Thanks.

You will have to ask the store if they have a 3.5mm minijack to RCA cable. Somewhere within the Getting Started program of the Audigy 2 ZS Sound card they have a section which shows you illustrations on how to connect your sound card to different setu
ps.
The digital connection will give you the purest stereo signal for your music, but you will not get surround sound unless you are listening to a surround sound?digital feed which the Home Cinema Recei'ver can understand (i.e. Dolby Digital, DTS, or regular PCM). This means that unelss you are listening to DVD Videos?with Dolby Digital or DTS soundtracks, you will only get stereo sound out the speakers, no multi channel EAX, no DVD Audio or CMSS either. Best thing to do is to connect the sound card to the Home theater system using Analog Mutlichannel input. Get 3 3.5mm to 2 Phono Cables. Plug each 3.5mm end into Line out ,2 and 3 on the back of the sound card. At the other end of the cable, match the 2 phono plugs?to the respecti've sockets on the home cinema amp. For example Line out is the front left and right speaker so just match white with Front Left and red with Front Right. Line out 2 - white goes to Rear/Surround Left and Red goes to Rear/Surround Right, irrespecti've of the colour coding on your amp.
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Basically what I would love to do is hook my audigy2 ZS up to my home theater via Spdif/coax but I see that i'll only get true 5. when watching DVD's or playing anything encoded with AC3. This is a problem since I watch DVDs from my standalone player and only want the 5. for games, music *that supports it* ect.
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I did a bit of research but apparently google-fu is weak since I could only find USB digital converters or single rca mono to digital converters.
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Hi there,
I have the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ($99 in CompUsa) (probably same as yours) and want to connect it to my Yamaha HomeTheater 6. receiver. I stumbled accross a different forum that may have information you need (the link is below this reply).
" is there an adapter out there that will convert my 5. analog into a digital coax signal? " I don't think you need an adapter because your Audigy 2 ZS sound card has a Digital Out jack (as I recall: it has smaller hole than the rest and at the other end opposite from the IEEE jack). You can use a mono mini plug to RCA cable from Radio Shack (or electronic stores); it runs less than $20. You need to connect the mono plug into your small Digital Out on the ZS sound card and connect the RCA plug to your digital coaxcial input locates in the back of your receiver (assuming your receiver has the that input; hopefully). And there you go.
By the way, do you know what size is the mono mini plug that your Digital Out jack can accept? I am thingking about /8inch. Let me know because I don't have the the sound card is at home at the moment.
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im trying to hook up my home theatre system to my pc. does anybody know if the "creative sound blaster digital I/O module cable" (which is an adapter that converts /8" headphone jack to a digital optical cable), is compatible with the Audigy 2zs card? so far i heard its only compatible with the audigy 2 value card..why not the 2zs?
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listento3,
Are you referring to the Digital I/O module unit's If that's the one, then no, I'm afraid it doesn't work with the Audigy 2 ZS soundcard. If your HT system works with coaxial input, you can use coaxial instead of optical.
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I'm connecting an Audigy 2 ZS to a home stereo. I'm using a /8 stereo-to-RCA in jack to hook up to the L and R on my home stereo receiver.
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The receiver is a Pioneer Elite VSX-45TX, and I've got the SB hooked up to the CD in connection (the dvd/cd player is hooked up elsewhere).
Why am I getting such horrible humm? I don't get this when I use the PC in my office using the Yamaha powered speakers.
- .dave.
Are you trying to connect Analog (2 way stereo) OutPut signal (from Audigy) to Digital-InPut (CD/DVD input) channel (on Pioneer)? Try to connect those R/L (RCA) to AV Input (stereo).
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* Digital Input - 5 (2 coaxial, 3 optical w/front)
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SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum "colors" the sound of music when played back. How to change th

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<EM>Notes:</EM>
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<TABLE id=Table5 borderColor=#cccccc cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=540 border=>
<TBODY>
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<TD colSpan=2><B>Filename: </B><B>SBA2_PCDrvBeta_LB_2_08_0002.exe</B></TD></TR>
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<TD colSpan=2>Creative Sound Blaster Audigy unified series Beta driver with OpenAL support 2.08.0002 SBA2-BETAD-W-LB
<DIV id=ShortDesc>
This beta driver is recommended for gamers who want full OpenAL? support for their audio devices. Only the following audio devices are supported:
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy? series, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum series, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX series
Creative Sound Blaster? Audigy 2 series including Sound Blaster Platinum, Sound Blaster Platinum eX and Sound Blaster Value
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS series including Sound Blaster Platinum and Sound Blaster Platinum Pro
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 series
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook series</LI>
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Microsoft? Windows? XP Service Pack 2 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
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