Creative Platinum eX, User Manual

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Installing Hardware 2-10
Connecting
Speaker Systems For instructions on how to switch between digital and analog modes, refer to topic “Digital Output Only”
of the Creative Surround Mixer Online Help.
If you have a 5.1 channel speaker system, you can upmix your stereo sources (such as CD Audio, MP3,
WMA, MIDI and Wave) to 5.1 channels by using the Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS)
technology. To upmix, you need to enable CMSS feature in PlayCenter. Refer to the PlayCenter
Online Help.
If you are playing games in
Windows 98 SE MS-DOS mode
(pure DOS mode), you must:
• Make sure the CD Audio
connector on the Sound Blaster
Audigy card and the Analog
Audio connector on the CD-
ROM or DVD-ROM drive are
connected.
• In addition, if you get distorted
sound, do not connect the CD
SPDIF connector on the Sound
Blaster Audigy card to the
Digital Audio connector on the
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
Figure 2-10: Connecting speaker systems to the Sound Blaster Audigy card.
Playing Games and Music, and
Watching Movies
with 4.1 or 5.1 Digital Speaker
System of Creative or Cambridge
SoundWorks
Playing Games and Music, and
Watching Movies
with an analog 5.1 channel
speaker system*
Minijack-to-
DIN cable
Triple stereo
audio cable
Analog Line
and Rear
Inputs
5.1 Channel Analog
Speaker System*
Analog Front,
Rear and
Center/Sub
Inputs
*For example,
Creative Inspire 5.1
Analog Speakers
Connects to
the Audigy
Extension
card
Digital
DIN
Rear Out
SB1394 port
Line Out
Analog/Digital Out jack
Sound Blaster Audigy card