Audio output advice request

Hello,
Hoping someone can help guide me on the most efficent way to deal with the following scenario. I have a late 2008 alum macbook that I am using as my primary home computer. I have a toslink optical out to my DTS decoder stereo receiver so that I can enjoy 5.1 dts sound from itunes and other sources. However, I also have Bose companion 2 desktop speakers that I would like to easily be able to toggle between for sound output from my Mac (for example, when my stereo reciever is otherwise occupied with television or other sound, I'd like to be able to use the desktop speakers simultaneously without having to unplug the mini-toslink from my headphone jack and switching it with the bose headphone jack. I'm looking for a way to have both the toslink and the bose sperakers hooked up to my mac at the same time. Any recommendations on how best to accomplish this??
Is there a better or easier scenario than the following? Will this scenario even work?
Get a USB 2.0 external digital sound output card (like creative soundblaster) to use for the itunes to stereo DTS decoder receiver and use the built-in headphone jack exclusively for the Bose speakers?
Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated!
Matt
Message was edited by: mattmck73

you can give it a quick test by making sure "auto Normalize" is enabled in GB's prefs and export, but my guess is that you're going to have to use a volume curve to increase his parts if it's all on one track.
another thing you might experiment with is any of GB's dynamics processors (compressors, limiters, etc).

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