Inspire 5700: SB Live 5.1 / Audigy2 ZS MiniDin (original cable) Rear not working

As in topic: My Rear speakers in digital mode over MiniDin are not working. Why?
They are working with optical/coax on DVD Player / 5.1 source and in CMSS/DolbyPrologic mode. Only Fourpoint 5.1 DIN is not working on rear speakers..

Hi Pandur2000 (sorry for my english, i am spanish)
I have 5700 and with my old live 5.1 spontaneously mini din don't work and next day works fine ?
I think is problem with cable and digital din input in decoder, try to clean connectors
Rear panel of the decoder of the Inspire 5700:
http://lh6.google.es/rmorinr/RjMSZXzVLrI/AAAAAAAAAR8/a5r8CHe2r8/s400/5700decoder-back.jpg
Creative Digital MiniDIN Adapter:
http://lh6.google.es/rmorinr/Rp-5qHrOJVI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/mz5XWZqWZNE/s400/cable.jpg

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Hi,
for many years I have been using a combination of a Creative Audigy Platinum soundcard with a Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700 speaker system. I am very pleased with the quality, compatibility and easy-to-useness of this system. For games and music, I let the soundcard do the decoding and send the bits via digital connection to the Inspire system, which I set to 5.1 DIN. For DVDs, I send everything via SPDIF and let the Inspire do the decoding, either DTS or Dolby digital. Works just perfectly.
Only problem: if everything works according to the plan, I will move from Europe to the States in two months and stay there for - 3 years. Because desktop computers and probably also my Inspire 5700 system are quite tricky to ship, I decided to buy a laptop here and buy another speaker system by creative after I have a arrived in the states. Full of anticipation I checked this site to choose my future system and ... was struck by shock:
I couldn't find any system which offered the same features as the Digital 5700! All modern systems lack digital input, leave alone an external decoder and have primitive wire-remotes instead of real remotes! Why has this kind of great system disappeared? Of course you cannot buy the good old 5700 anymore, which leaves me with a great problem of how to organize a system which offers similar quality and features.
I originally planned to connect my laptop (ASUS A8JS) via S/PDIF to the new inspire 5.1 speaker set, which would then do the job of decoding digital audiostreams coming from DVDs. But well, since the new Inspire sets neither support S/PDIF nor offer external decoding, that idea has been flushed down the toilet
What do you recommend instead? I guess I will need a USB Sound Blaster in combo with an inspire speaker set. What will provide the same quality to what I had? What are the drawbacks of not having digital connections any more? How can I control sound levels of the subwoofer, center and rearspeakers, if there is no external decoder anymore? Only via software?
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Thank you very much for your helpful replies! Future looks much brighter now
Where have you found the Audigy 2 NX? On their webpage, creative only list the USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor or the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External as USB-solutions. Since I don't need the video editing capability, the Audigy 2 ZS would probably be quite an overkill. Still, the price difference between Audigy ($250) and Life! ($50) is ... drastic! Besides the video stuff and some connections, what else is the Life! solution missing? Does it have poor quality? Is there no real 3D sound, just some kind of upmixing? It's not very clear from the specifications.
The Logitech Z-5500 Digital looks very promising, too. A consequent improvement of the Inspire D-5700, just by the competition I may go for that one, but probably still need an external soundcard for 3D-sound in games.
I am not exactly an expert considering connections. So, my laptop will already have digital S/PDIF built into the headphone plug. Just from the look, I'd say this is the same kind of plug which is called "Analog/Digital-Out" on my old Audigy sound card. Now, the logitech system supports digital optical or digital coaxial as source input. Will this work with the S/PDIF headphone out, or would it require the DIN connection you mentionned? Could this be easily solved by buying an adaptor?
Looking at the picture showing the connections of the SB Life! I again am not clear at all what kind of connections there are (http://us.creative.com/products/prod...Specifications ). Is there anything compatible with the Logitech system? I guess it's no question the Audigy2 ZS is equipped with the required connections.
So, to summarize my question: could I digitally connect either my laptop or the SB Live! 24-bit external with the Logitech Z-5500, so that the latter would take care of decoding Dolby Digital and DTS sound, while the sound blaster would provide EAX and 3D sound for games?
I have also seen that Creative Labs still offers an external decoder with a lot of connection possibilities. It's just no longer part of a speaker system, but rather a standalone product: the Creative Decoder DDTS-100 for $30. Together with a good speaker system, this may be an alternative to the logitech solution, in terms of enabling to plug in other devices than just a computer (another thing I really loved about my old system).
Well, again thank you very much for your advice!
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I juz bought a inspire 5700 and a audigy 2 ZS. Currently i am using the digital connection through the Digital Din input on the decoder from the Digital out of the soundcard. However, when i m playing mp3, only the centre and front speakers are working, the rear speakers are only playing some background music. When i m using the DTT 2200 speakers before this, all my 4 satellites are playing loud and clear. When i try to use analog connection (green and black) on my inspire 5700, no sound is coming out from the speaker. I wonder y. I already disable the digital out from the speaker setting. Is anyone using this speaker and can u advice me on how to configure the speakers and soundcard to achieve good quality sound? Thanx alot.

otarboy wrote:Ok i have tried setting the CMSS to stereo surround. However, i dun feel much difference from the CMSS2 or CMSS setting. The rear speakers are producing muffled sounds of the songs unlike the front speakers which are very clear in the singing. Also i tried to play mp3 songs using analog connection and the result is almost like digital output. When i was using the DTT 2200, all four speakers sounded equally clear since they are analog output but how come the analog output of Inspire 5700 is so different? I have already turn up the surround volume till 3/4 max and yet i cant feel the surround of music. So if i dun watch dvd on my pc, does that mean the Inspire 5700 is performing worse than my old DTT 2200?
Hey budd I use my CMSS3D settings too but I leave them set on stero surround and use InterVideo WinDVD6 Platinum Edition ver.B06.083 and don't use Creative Mediasource DVD-Audio Player ver..50.08 cause with that version sounds like there is static on the cd and complicating playback on the cd but thats a bug in creative software but to my knowlage anything in there previous ver. works well off but with InterVideo WinDVD6 PE software of mine they give me settings with it called audio booster pack and I can give my back speakers a Boost of +25 and I can hear well off then with that and does wanders on my DVD'S as well with DVD audio.
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but also digital helps RIAA out in copyright protection of course there are ways around that too but I am not pramoting anything illegal so I will leave that subject alone for you all thinkers out there
after listening to the included dvd-audio disk that comes with Creative Soundblaster audigy2 zs gamer LE card through InterVideo WinDVD6 Platinum ED you can tell a kickass diffrence I mean it's the type that gives ya goosebumps cause you love hearing waht you hear coming from your speakers hehe..... at least try the demo and if ya love the demo get with me at [email protected] and I may share ya a full retail version for just being a helpfull person that I am
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Hi all,
i am planning to go for .Can i connect that to both pc as well as tv?
i have sony KV-SW29M80/50.
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Rudra

rudra wrote:
Hi,
Thx for the replies.. I live in INDIA and i enquired about the rates of inspire 5700? They are too costly It costs around 8000 indian rupees.And i can't spent that much .
Now i have decided to go for creative Inspire 6.1 6600 It costs pretty less(7000 indian rupees).
Whats ur opinion abt 6600 ? Is it worth that much ?
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Is it possible to use for both?
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6600 is quite old model too. You should check out their newer model of speaker like the I-Trigue 5600 if it's available in your country. With this speaker, there's a line in at the remote. With this line in, you can have the TV connected from rca to minijack to the remote and to top this off, the speaker itself have the CMSS feature from creative sound card and with this feature, you can upmix the tv sound to 5. soundfield and it definitely sound good.

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Anyway looking at the current products I was wondering if th best option would be the X-fi Surround 5. - would I connect the digital outpt on that to the digital in on my Inspire decoder?
Any advice appreciated.

.....so having spent the day looking through the forums I've reached the conclusion that Creative have left everyone who invested in the 5700s high and dry and full functionality is not possible with?new products such as X-fi?and?they don't even have any?old external soundcards that would do what I want either.
There are a lot of posts on the?board with customers who have been let down in this way. If you had a product to enable continued use of the 5700s I would have purchased it, but you don't, and I'm not?splashing out on top of the line analog speakers.
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Hi,
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Of course there is the docking module which provides multichannel analog out. Trouble here: the Inspire 5700 only comes with two analog line in channels, front and rear. So that would lead to 4.0 instead of 5.1. Missing the center speaker for games is very bad.
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Alternatively, one could possibly also use some fancy software to convert all the wave-out sound into AC3 or DTS and send it along the optical cable. But I don?t know any such software plus I expect this to drain a lot of processor power.
Any help is greatly appreciated it'ss kind of frustrating that two products of the same company can't be connected with each other, just because neither, the card nor the docking module provide Digital DIN.
Thank you very much and best regards
- spitfire
P.S. in another post, pjc said: You will probably require a 4-pole mini-jack > DIN converter to connect your Creative speakers to this socket.
That's exactly what I'm looking for, but I couldn't find such a converter on the creative homepage.

I believe the DIN for soundcard are mainly built and solely used by Creative. I don't think there is any 3rd-party converter in the market to do DIN. There is a software here posted by some other users that can do AC3 encoding on the fly. Not too sure where's the post now but you can do a search for it.

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Yeh man thats really disapointing to hear I was looking around but no one that I can see has this unit itself for sale but I would contact creative by e-mail and see if they have any in stock for a replacement and sorry for any more information you may have wanted but thats all I could come up with I mean I even tryed ebay and no one has any for sale there ither?
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http://images.americas.creative.com/...mall89___6.gif
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Inspire 5.1 5700 Digital system not working correctly

I have a Inspire 5.1 5700 Digital speaker system that has some issue's.
The front speakers are all that is working with center channel low volume , the Sub and Rear speakers are not working according to set-up in software , But Sub is working in games and with Music.
I had been using an MSI P67/ G43 MB onboard sound. Today I gave up and purchased a new sound card, an Audigy Rx. Installed the drivers, did the update for drivers. I was working w/ speaker set up and mic setup and I still have the same problem.
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Originally Posted by RonReagan
ok, great, but how do I select the source, it only shows speakers w / out an option for optical or Dolby or DTS . also, selecting the Dolby or DTS on the controller doesn't seem to change other than tones that I have noticed.
Ok , I changed it to SPDIF and it only shows 2 channel @ Hz. in the test that pops up, only 2 front speakers are activated. In Arma 3 , it seems to have 5.1 sound again now.
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So, what am I doing wrong here ??
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Hi RonReagan,
SPDIF (Sony Philips Digital Interconnect Format) basically has 2 types of connection: Optical and Coaxial. In this case, you are using an Optical connection. Hence, it is known as SPDIF Optical.
It is correct that you received 2 audio channels during speaker test via an optical connection. An alternative way is to initiate the test through the Windows audio endpoint for SPDIF Out (optical Out).
At the Sound of the Windows Control Panel, configure SPDIF Out as the default device. Click on the Properties. At the Supported Formats tab, check the box for DTS Audio or Dolby Digital. Click on the Test button to initiate the speaker test. You should able to test for the rear speakers.
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I am having a big problem getting the X-Fi's digital out to work with my Creative Inspire 5. DIGITAL speakers. The speakers are OK as they respond to their own self test on their small remote which sends a sound to each of the 5 speakers & the sub-woofer in turn.
The X-Fi speaker setup will not show any more than 2. speakers in the digital mode. This is NOT CORRECT. If I proceed in digital speaker setup, I only get sound from the front 3 speakers!
This quote from Creative's known issues shows that the digital output from the X-Fi card should work in 5. using the multijack digital output!
QUOTE...........
4. KNOWN ISSUE
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I assume the "bypass mode" means the "Fourpoint 5. DIN" position on the "Effects" switch on the Inspire's console.
I have set the X-Fi multijack to "digital output".
I have completely uninstalled all Creative drivers etc. Rebooted in "safe mode" and run Driver Cleaner Pro, to be sure! then done a clean install.
I cannot get the 5. speaker setup to work under Digital and am not at all a happy man!! The Audigy 2 that I had in before worked perfectly!
Using the analogue speaker outputs is NOT an option. The Inspire only has stereo ANALOGUE inputs and I want to use the analogue X-Fi outputs for the 3 jacks on my 5. earphones ..... without grovelling around behind the PC every time I change from speaker to phones!!
I had the analogue 5. phones and 5. digital speakers working perfectly in the Audigy 2 setup!
I seem to have spent ?45+ for a markedly inferior setup!!!

Just read through the post
X FI and No 5. DIGITAL surround out.
from this board sometime ago! 6 pages of furious people!
Why did my Audigy 2 work providing digital 5. sound out to the Inspire 5700 and the Xfi will not?
Even Creative's own known issues say 5. should be available from the multijack output!
As it stands the new card is an expensi've step backwards and is absolutely useless to me!
I am seriously thinking of demanding a refund on my Inspire digital speakers as well as the useless sound card!
Even my rotten old SB li've "5." worked with the Inspire 5700 speakers!

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D'oh! Well, that explains it. I should like to point out that it is a bit confusing for buyers to introduce a cable standard (nobody else in the business uses that kind auf Digital DIN connection, AFAIK) and then using it for something else altogether. The DIN connection was one of the reasons I chose the Sound Blaster over a competing product. I must say that I'm a bit diappointed since even the Users Guide I downloaded (to make sure I got the right product) states that the DIN socket is used for "connecting digital in-/outputs of multichannel speaker systems".
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Originally Posted by Freezy
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Going mad with my Audigy2zs+Inspire 5700

?Hello,
after going through all the available manuals/support websites/board topics, etc. I finally decided to create an account and post my question, as I am reaching dangerous levels of exasperation. One may assume that two digital products from one brand should be entirely compatible and should work together easily. Sadly, this is not the case with these two.
The thing is, that I have tried multiple solutions to get all my speakers to produce sound of decent quality. Currently I have connected the Inspire set with Audigy using two jack cables and one digital-coaxial cable. This is the best I've achieved yet, i.e. I get sound from all the speakers apart from the center one.
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Please try the following instructions to test your Inspire 5700, this should tell you if the speakers system is working properly.
1. Disconnect the audio cable connected to the Front analog input on the back of the decoder.
2. Connect an audio device like an mp3 player to the Front analog input, you will need a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable for this.
3. Select CMSS movie or CMSS music on the decoder and play a music track on the mp3 player.
You should get sound from your center speakers. If you are not getting sound, you probably need to check the connections.

Inspire 5700: SB Live 5.1 / Audigy2 ZS MiniDin (original cable) Rear not working

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