Windows MCE 2005 -- XBOX 360 -- optical -- DDTS-100 -- analogue -- MegaWorks THX 5.1

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?
Thanks in advance.

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.....

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