Windows Vista

[momalle1]

I must not be understanding SPDIF properly. I thought that was a digital signal. Many people using Audigy cards have been making the SPDIF connection thier default to eliminate buzzing in Windows 7. When I do this, I get no sound, in Vista or Windows 7, but I have analog speakers on an Audigy 4, so this is what I expected. Am I missing something? How are these people getting sound when they select SPDIF out? They have analog speakers too.

[Meocene]

It may because you're using Win 7 x64.

The Audigy's spdif doesn't work in x64 OS's at the moment...

[stormy13]

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Meocene wrote:

It may because you're using Win 7 x64.

The Audigy's spdif doesn't work in x64 OS's at the moment...

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Doesn't matter whether it works or not, he said he has analogue speakers and gets no sound when he sets it to SPDIF. Wonder why that is?

momalle1  you want to use SPDIF you need to use digtial speakers (which is an oxymoron as the only thing digital about them is the connection) that use a digital connection via SPDIF.

[Meocene]

Not entirely true stormy, since the audio signal isn't touched by DAC's when sent out via spdif.

[sukru]

Well, I'm not sure but is your setup like the following?:

* external SPDIF device -> Audigy -> analog surrond speaker output

If so, that can be done on Windows 7 x64

[momalle1]

Stormy13, What happened is what I would expect would happen, and it's the same in Vista 32 or Windows 7 32. The only reason I questioned what seemed obvious, was a problem in Windows 7. Many people have the same issue where, when playing sound from any application in Windows 7 a loud bussing occurs randomly. I've only found people with Audigy cards (SE, 2, 4 or any variant) experiencing this. Many have posted that selecting SPDIF as default in the soudn control cured the issue. Didn't make sense to me, and didn't work for me. These people all say they have analog speakers (I think Windows would choose SPDIF for you if you had digital speakers).

Turns out the cure for me was to set the sound quality to 24 bit, 48,000 Studio Quality.

[ppkumar]

Hey Sukru,

I have a similar problem. You said external SPDIF-->Audigy--->Analog speakers can work right?

I have a similar set up.

Laptop--->Audigy 2NX--->ANa;og 7.1 speakers with Vista 32 bit SP1.

Can you please tell me how to get the SPDIF work?.

Regards.

[slayer616]

SPDIF is a digital connection, so is the mini DIN and optical. You need to have something on the other end to decode the digital signal or a speaker system that has an external SPDIF connection. I have the Very old SB 3500 speaker system and this will take the digital input. If you have your speakers plugged directly in to your card SPDIF won't work for you.

[sukru]

Ok, havent' been in this for several months. Hope you've already solved your issues, otherwise this is how I do it:

Enable Dolby Decoding in SPDIF setup of Audigy on the desktop (sometimes automatically enabled)

From Control Panel -> Sound -> Playback -> Creative SB Audidy -> Properties -> Levels enable SPIDF input

That should work. I was able to get 5.1 sound from my Xbox 360 using this method.