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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just bought a new Dell and it came with a Turtle
Beach Sante Cruz sound card, a Altec Lansing ADA885 5 peice speaker system, and
an unsatisfactory amount of documentation. I'm not sure how the sound
system works or how to configure it to get the most out of it. Both the
card and the speakers can be configured to run in several modes. The card
has the modes 2 Speaker, 4 Speaker, 6 Speaker, Digital 4.1 and some
others. The speakers have the modes Stereo, StereoX2, ProLogic, Quad, and
Dolby Digital. What first confuses me about this is the fact that both the
card AND and speakers have modes. What's up with that? Isn't it
redundant? The second thing that confuses me are the digital modes.
It appears that the speakers have their own digital-to-analog converter, because
they can apparently decode a digital signal and play it. Isn't that
redundant with the digital-to-analog converter on the sound card? If I
choose Digital 4.1 on my sound card, am I basically bypassing the card and
piping the signal directly to the speakers for decoding?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike Bresnahan</FONT></DIV>
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