Posts by Will.MA

Thanks for taking a crack at the problem C-DAC. I don't have a outboard sound "card." It has on-board AC3 encoding/decoding. Here are some details about the main board's audio capabilities that I took from the DFI website: -AC'97...

On my Yamaha HTF-5790, the "small" crossover setting will cutoff frequencies that fall below the crossover setting of my subwoofer, which is variable at about 9 different crossover points between 40Hz and 120Hz. I set the receiver's...

I have a NForce-2 based board [DFI Lanparty NF II Ultra B] with SPDIF coax inputs/outputs on board. I would like to capture audio programming from a HD-compatible cable TV box using a digital coax line to connect the devices via...

Seth, thanks for clearing up the confusion for me. I'm relieved that the AGP interface isn't nearing the end of its life. I feel much better about my building plans now. One other question: As this machine will be used equally for...

My old PC built on an XP 2800+@`2.2GHz/NVidia 5900XT just isn't cutting it for movies/games since I now put them on a big screen, so recently I began building a new system for games & ffdshow use. I'm not sure if the bottleneck is...

Like there are movies that expose flaws in a display's ability to render images correctly, I imagine there is a consensus of movies that expose flaws in the audio components of a HT system. What movies are recommended to critically...

Adding an outboard amplifier to my HT receiver in a listening area of approximately 200 ft2 was dramatic. Movie playback is much fuller and subtle details are heard without straining to discern them. The amount of information is always...

NEO 6 or DPL IIx for CATV, Stereo 7 for Cable Radio & Music.

Thanks V for all of your suggestions. As it turns out, I was getting only Stereo L/R information so more than the center channel was missing. In the end, the problem was related to a missed setting in ZPP. I needed to set an audio...

I just thought of something: There is no connection between my DVD drive and my video card. The only connection between my mobo & DVD drive is the IDE ribbon. Is that sufficent to carry the 5.1 channel information? Perhaps not...