I have had a 5672 for a while now and I love the machine.
I have been wondering however about the SPDIF port and connecting it to external sound systems / speakers. So far I have only used it to plug in headphones and a set of regular speakers that would hook up to a desktop computer (the plug looks is about the same as a headphone plug).
What type of cables does this port support? I have read that it supports a optical cable but I really don't understand what that means. I am fairly clueless about audio technologies. Also how does it detect different cable types? Is this provided on the hardware level or do I need a audio mixer to do this? For the life of me I can not get the realtek audio mixer to work anymore.
Someday in the future I would like to get a nice sound system in my home but would like be able to hook the laptop up to it for output of video and sound.
Thanks
I have been wondering however about the SPDIF port and connecting it to external sound systems / speakers. So far I have only used it to plug in headphones and a set of regular speakers that would hook up to a desktop computer (the plug looks is about the same as a headphone plug).
What type of cables does this port support? I have read that it supports a optical cable but I really don't understand what that means. I am fairly clueless about audio technologies. Also how does it detect different cable types? Is this provided on the hardware level or do I need a audio mixer to do this? For the life of me I can not get the realtek audio mixer to work anymore.
Someday in the future I would like to get a nice sound system in my home but would like be able to hook the laptop up to it for output of video and sound.
Thanks
