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Sound Blaster Digital I /o Module
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Product Description
Add optical and coaxial digital I/O to your Sound Blaster equipped PC. The Sound Blaster Digital I/O Module gives you digital inputs and outputs for easy connections to digital speakers or home theater systems.This Digital I/O Module works with Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit; Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value, SE, 4; Sound Blaster X-Fi Range.
Product Details
- Brand: Creative Labs
- Model: 30SB000200003
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 1.40" h x 5.40" w x 7.90" l, 2.00 pounds
Features
- Features
- - Dedicated optical and coaxial digital outputs
- - Convenient optical and coaxial digital inputs
- - Works with the following Sound Blaster cards
- -- Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Customer Reviews
works as advertized
Since I bought the wrong (at least I thought) sound card (thought it had onboard optical output), had to get this, and it works...My mistake cost me the price of this gizmo, but the gizmo itself works just fine.
Pay Attention to Speaker Settings
This was posted a year ago, but is the RESOLUTION to using this module. No where is this documented via Soundblaster site, but I too after wasting hours of time getting this module to work, read this comment and problem resolved. Good Job to original poster.
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The bottom line to get the Digital I/O module working is to use Control Panel->Sound. Find your speakers and click Properties. On the Custom tab click Digital Only. The analog speakers will be disabled but the Digital I/O will work.
BTW: If you want to record PC audio connect the coaxial input to the coaxial output and make sure you turn up the input gain to 100%. You can use any sound recorder (including the free one that comes with Vista) to make high quality digital recordings.
Providing only PCM (stereo) output
I am breaking my head on how to get Dolby/DTS/5.1 output from this module. Looks like we can not. It just converts the analog stereo to digital stereo. I tried all the settings in my onkyo reciever including direct channel. But, when i tried the test sounds (from the sound blaster control software), only the front left and right speakers play. The rest remains mute. You get the output when you enable the "Digital output only" from the sound control panel. But, the output is just PCM.
