DDTS-100, Megaworks 710D, SB Live! 5.1

I use the digital out minijack of my SoundBlaster Live! Player 5.1. It is connected to the co-axial digital in on the DDTS-100. I am just wondering what settings I should use in Creative Surround Sound Mixer and Windows control panel (sounds & audio devices) as the speakers are 7.1, but I reckon as far as the PC is concerned the output is stereo (when not an AC3 stream). So, do I have windows and surround mixer set for 5.1, 7.1 or stereo speakers?
thanks in advance
dave

No, I really can't complain at all about the setup.
I use Windows Media Player for my 4000-odd tunes. The DDTS is set to Neo:6 music most of the time, with the speakers set to upmix from 6.1 to 7.1. The sound is absolutely awesome!!!
When watching tv i flick it onto dolby pro logic 2, and change the speakers to upmix 5.1->7.1. Again, sound is superb! Just before the Star Wars trilogy came out on DVD I watched my VHS tapes, and due to the witchcraft and wizardry Creative have provided me with, I can honestly say that the sound quality and surroundiness was nearly as good as the DVDs are themselves.
I would thoroughly reccommend the DDTS / S750 combo to anyone, and even with my oldish SB Live! card the sound is superb, clear, and best of all, LOUD.
An Audigy 2 may be on the cards for Christmas though..........

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Dear Creative Forum,
Please look at the setup in my subject line.
Can anyone tell me if this will support playing of (5. encoded) WMA-files. I believe that all the decoding must be done by the DDTS-00, since the XBOX probably uses through put SPDIF, and I am in doubt if it decoder supports this.
Any smarter solution?
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I am from New Zealand, our output is pretty much a stable constant 230V. Dad is an electronics expert, he disagrees with a lower voltage - lowering the input voltage will only lower the output volume. So in effect this will make the hiss appear to go away, but in reality it's simply lowered to a point where it's nominal or below hearing. The total output volume is also lowered, so you need to turn the speakers up more to hear anything.
It fits with what others have said about repaired systems, that don't go as loud any more. This isn't the fix.
We tried putting some heavy capcitors accross the speakers to act as a sort of high pass filter but that didn't appear to have any effect, which surprised him (if it had worked it would have killed some of the treble range also as a side effect, so again not a perfect solution). So it needs to be something a little more involved - like a decent filter of somesort.
It's probably just a cheap chip on the amplifier. I'm trying to get the company to find a NEW pair from the suppliers that doesn't hiss, then doing an RMA. Otherwise I"m tempted to get a refund, since IMO they're just **bleep** sounding. I've never heard hiss like this before, no matter how cheap the system. My DDTS-100 decoder seems to have a hiss problem also.....

DDTS-100 with Megaworks 550?

Maybe a silly question, but I'm looking at pictues of the DDTS-100 at Creative's site where you hook up everything, and I can't see have the speakers will work and still have the sound card hooked up. If the speakers go to the switch box, how do I connect the X-Fi card to the switchbox? I'm alos looking to connect a 360.
Message Edited by Hagman983 on 11-23-2006 11:23 PM

Can I ask where you got your DDTS - 100 from i cant find one anywhere. thanks

MW 550 5.1+ ddts 100+ audigy 2 zs. Help!

Hi, i have purchased recentley all of those things. Creative Megaworks 550 THX 5.1, Creative Decoder DDTS 100 and Creative Audigy 2 ZS, but i'm not really sure how to connect it... I have it connected by this way, but i only have sound from front speaker(2 channel):
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dragao,
Check the following thread first, as it covers the same topic (pretty much):
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...message.id=537
Because you have the DDTS-100 decoder, you can use analog connectors for music and games, the decoder has enough inputs to do that.
Cat

Ddts 100 is this normal

ok so far i have spent over ?600 to get a dolby digital system with some punch
Firstly i bought the s750 gigaworks speakers
then the audigy 2 zs platinum soundcard.
Now this should have been good enough to get dolby digital via optical out on dvd to optical in on audigy 2 zs live drive ( nope lip sync issue with no fix in sight)
So i buy the ddts 100, well actually i sepnt my money on another creative 7.1 speaker set that includes the ddts 100.
Set it up and yes i can now get dolby digital / dts etc.
But i got no switch box, your also suppsoed to get 2 (7.1) audio cables, I GOT it gets worse can someone that represents creative tell me, what sound quality i should expect whilst using the analogue stereo inputs.
Stereo is ok
But when i want to use dolby prologic or the neo to upload 2 channel stereo to 5.1 etc. in movie mode, cinema mode, music mode etc.
I get high frequency garbled noises from the speakers, it aint the speakers as i do not get these nosies using dolby digital, i only get these noises whilst using the prologic and neo, now i know this is not normal, as it would be pointless if this was supposed to happen, why is it all the creative geart i have bought is having troubles. Do you not think that someone who spends this amonut of money deserves to have hardware that actually works as intended.
The amount of hassle i have and for someone to say, that has a vested interest well mine does not do that. Do they just keep the good stuff for their workers and palm everyone else of with , sub standard, missing parts etc.
Whats going on?

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Hello, I recently purchased a Creative DDTS-100 Decoder, and could not be happier with it. Unfortunately it was a refurbished model missing the switcher box (PC/Decoder to Speakers) and Remote Control. The remote is inconsequnetial as the decoder is not more than a few feet from me, however, the switcher box is considerably more important. Due to my X-fi being unable to output 5.1 (to my knowledge) on any socket other than the 3x3.5mm stereo on the back of my PC, I have to change the plugs every time I want to use full 5.1 on my PC or decoder. I am aware that the X-fi card is unable to output full 5.1 over the SP/DIF out, Optical out or flexijack in Vista due to hardware issues.
My question is, is there any way to hook up the DDTS-100 and my X-fi to my 5.1 headphones (also using 3x3.5mm) with adapters, or is there another product which will allow the same functionality as the DDTS switcher?
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just purchased and installed the above system. however, when doing the software test under speaker settings, i only get front left and front right. all the others dont work. i have miniplug out from audigy (digital output) to (coaxial input) decoder, then decoder out (front left/right, rear left/right, sub/front) to megaworks input (front left/right, rear left/right, sub/front). i do the test on the ddts-100 decoder, and i get all 5.1 channels. now, just to clarify, i used the supplied mini plug to rca, that rca to the rca input (coaxial) the plug is the mono plug that came with the decoder. do i need to go out and buy the 4 pole mini plug? why dont they just supply it instead of the mono plug.. which isnt even shown to be used in my manuals.
anyway, clarification would be good on the mono/4 pole miniplug. otherwise nice sound so far.cant turn it up cuz its midnight and highly doubt the neighbours would appreciate it.
cheers
Steve

Hmmm... My guess is that this is due to your setup with digital out. Since the digital out on your soundcard will not pass through anything other than stereo PCM or encoded SPDIF data you will not get anything else but FL and FR channels when calibrating. Read more about this is the soundblaster forum section here.
My suggestion, as I'm sure everyone else will, is to connect your soundcard using the analogue outputs into the switchbox of the DDTS-100.
Edit: to be more precise this is how you can connect everything: from your soundcard, connect the analogue outputs into the switchbox of the DDTS-100. Connect the switchbox to the main DDTS-00. Connect the DDTS-00 main to the speakers. Now, connect the digital out from your soundcard into the coaxial input on the DDTS-100. When doing a calibration, switch to PC mode on the switchbox and calibrate. If you then want to use the digital out, enable digital out only in the speaker or THX settings. I use this setup at home actually but use the T7700 speakers instead.
Message Edited by rico0 on 07-20-2005 09:50 AM

DDTS-100 No effect.

Hello to everyone.
I have a ddts-100 decoder system and creative gigaworks S750 speakers. I connected the decoder with coaxial cable from my SB live.
My problem is that i haven't found a way to play trasnparent 5.1 sounds from my computer to the speaker system. What i mean? When i run the test of my SB card the only speakers i can hear is FL and FR. That happens because the DDTS cannot use no effect to input sound. Why is this important? Because many many games has they own effects and the decoder (as it is its work) mixes up these to all the channels. As a result the back sounds comes front and opposite.
I had another system of SB Live! and Creative Inspire 500 digital (those with the decoder-amplifier) and the decoder has the option "5.1 headphones" which plays trasparent the channels from its digital input. I say that maybe this is bad when i play music, watching tv or playback any stereo source because the only speakers that plays are the front left and right. But when you need no upmix effect, as games with EAX, it is the only way to cycle the effects as game is programmed to do.
So is the any way to bypass the DDTS-100 its effects? If no, i beleive that is useless. What to do a decoder that mixes everything as it likes?
Test: POP-Warrion Within. Stand in front of anything has sound (waterfall?) and start cycling. Listen with ddts-100 and then turn to analog, bypass ddts-100.. There is a very very big diffirence..
Sorry about my english, i am greek.
Gordona.

First of all the DDTS-100 does NOT support other than stereo analog inputs! It has 3 optical, coaxial and 3 stereo analog.
Did i miss something? I said that the other deocder that i have, Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700, supports that thing. I understand the diffirence from ac3 encoded sound but i don't mean that. I 've no problem with dolby sound, the DDTS recognizes and decode it.
There is only Digital Stereo and AC3 coded? And if that happens why the other decoder can listen and play every channel its own?
SB PCI->Digital Din-> only digital stereo?
or
coaxial-> Digital Stereo-> DDTS-100?
I really cannot understand.
Gordon`s

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3) Incorrect driver settings
4) Defective Material: Either the SB 24 or the Zalmans could be defective. (Note: the SB 24 works just fine in stereo headphone mode)
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