Do I need Digital

Hi folks,???just a quick question but do I need digital I/O for a Creative Xtrememusic card?I want to run a digitial connection from my sound card to my receiver, Sony STR-DA3200ES. I had tried to use a optical TOSLINK cable with a 3.5mm jack on the sound card side but I got no sound doing this. Is this even possible what I'm doing?What's the point in having this Digital I/O if you can have only item connected to the soundcard or is it possible to use multiple items. Why not just a straight digital connection. What type of cable have other people used in the past?Sorry for probably bringing up an old and tired topic but I find it hard to get straight and simple answer from searching the forum. CheersShane?

lol @ Creative...
I remember the days of the soundblaster li've, when you had to spend lots extra to get the edition with the 50-cent digital i/o riser board. Same thing with the audigy, but the riser board from the li've worked on it (Creative forgot to mix up the pin-outs on the audigy so they could price-gouge riser boards and "i/o modules" for people who wanted the built-in features on the cards to actually function). I remember the Li've! 5. that was really a Li've! with a new driver. I remember the Audigy, billed as a 24-bit card, and the Audigy 2 follow-up, which was the one that was actually capable of 24-bit sound. I remember the laundry list of features enabled by third-party drivers on both the Li've! and the Audigy /2 series cards that were sold as "unique" to special edition cards such as the "Audigy 4" (which is nothing more than an audigy 2 with new drivers and an op-amp upgrade).
Now, they're selling i/o modules substantially cheaper than they used to...a step in the right direction, I think, but after you shell out $40 for the "basic" card, don't you kind of feel like a chump kicking them the extra $20 for spdif i/o that competing products at lower price points all seem to include like it's the old hat feature it really is? There is absolutely no excuse for a $40 card in 2007 to not have digital i/o. Welcome to 997, X-fi i/o module users!
C'mon, Creative, it's getting old. Stop separating your product ranges using flags in the drivers for hardware-identical cards and charging big bucks for cheap pin-header connections, riser boards, and "dri've bays". I can understand the extra charge for things like on-card memory and such, but these "value added" features that are already hardwired into the cards themselves, but crippled via drivers/lack of a cheap connector really stink up the place.

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