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9860 S/pdif

post #1 of 15
12/17/04 at 10:29pm
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Do you need a special adapter to connect into the S/PDIF out jack on the notebook?
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post #2 of 15
12/18/04 at 8:24pm
I too would like to know how the heck I am supposed to use the 1/8" s/pdif jack on my 9860 to output audio to my reciever! The only input on the reciever are optical and digital coax. I have never seen a reciever with any 1/8" jacks.
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post #3 of 15
12/18/04 at 10:15pm
Read this whole thread: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=54312&page=2 I still am trying to figuire it all out but I am gunna see if I can find a cord that can connect to my SPDIF out and a digital coax on the other side to connect to my receiver. BRDMAN: Yes, you do need a "special cord" in a sense, one that can carry a SPDIF signal. It depends what you are trying to hook it up to.
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post #4 of 15
12/19/04 at 12:02am
This notebook's audio is a huge scam.

-4 speakers on the notebook dont work
-spdif is useless
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post #5 of 15
12/19/04 at 3:48am
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I figured it out. I went to Radio Shack and got a Mono to Mono Shielded Audio Adapter (part number 274-330)for about $3.00 that converts the coax cable to fit into the laptop. It works pretty good with windvd. You have to enable it in the sound manager and in the windvd program if your watching movies under the audio tab.
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post #6 of 15
12/19/04 at 4:21am
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Originally Posted by Vandelay
-4 speakers on the notebook dont work
Have you tried changing your sound setup from the default 2-speaker laptop setting?
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post #7 of 15
12/19/04 at 6:21am
Although I haven't tried it yet, my Boston Digital BA7500 speakers have a digital 1/8 plug and I'm guessing that is just what the 1/8 is for on the 9860
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post #8 of 15
12/19/04 at 10:13pm
Vandelay, none of your laptop speakers work?? Or do you mean you don't get any rear channel sound? If it's the later, this laptop doesnt' have rear speakers.. what would the point be in a rear channel, when all 4 speakers are in front of you?? There are only 4 speakers to beef up the sound, not to support surrond sound.
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post #9 of 15
12/19/04 at 11:55pm
From what I understand there are four speakers however they are set up for stereo sound. No point in separating the sound among four speakers when they are right next to each other and you can't really get "surround" sound with the speakers all sitting right in front of you....
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post #10 of 15
12/20/04 at 3:28pm
Has anyone found a difinitive solution for this?

I went to radio shack, futureshop, and absound to find a wire that converts SPDIF minijack to optical or coax and I found one for 70 bucks at absound.

Needless to say I just bought another external sound card, but I'm definitely not keeping it because now I have 3 sound cards.

Is there anyone who has a source for where I can buy such a wire on the net?

Curses!
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post #11 of 15
12/20/04 at 5:41pm
If it makes you feel any better the 3' fiber optic cable I bought to hook up my DVD Player to my receiver cost me almost $40. Remember that with SPDIF you're not just dealing with an analog 2 or 3 channel signal, you are dealing with digital output which requires different equipment. With that said, good luck finding your cable--when you do get one let us know how it works as I would like to hook up my 9860 to my receiver....
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post #12 of 15
12/29/04 at 6:15pm
just use stereo jack to 2RCA normal jack stereo cable and connect one of them to your coax input on your receiver it worked for me. sounds so good and you dont even have to buy special cables. coax SPDIF input output has only "+" and "-" polarity one channel which is decoded to 5.1 by the receiver, so there is no point to spend a lot of money and buy a special cable just get a jack RCA stereo cable and use only one channel.

Sager 9860
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post #13 of 15
12/30/04 at 12:57am
With my 5690, all I did was buy a 6ft optical cable, which came with two Toslink adapters. All I did was attach the Toslink to the end connected to the laptop. The inputs on most A/V receivers don't accept the Toslink, so you just leave the other end of the cable alone. It only puts out 2.1 (not really sure why) for my system and game audio, but with DVD movies, it puts out a full fledged Dolby Digital signal which is then decoded by the amp.
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post #14 of 15
12/30/04 at 5:45pm
just use stereo jack to 2RCA normal jack stereo cable and connect one of them to your coax input on your receiver it worked for me. sounds so good and you dont even have to buy special cables. coax SPDIF input output has only "+" and "-" polarity one channel which is decoded to 5.1 by the receiver, so there is no point to spend a lot of money and buy a special cable just get a jack RCA stereo cable and use only one channel.

Sager 9860
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post #15 of 15
1/1/05 at 11:42am
Buy this:

http://us.creative.com/products/prod...&product=10370

The audigy 2's have the same type of digital out (the 1/8 miniplug). This is what I use for digital out to my Z-680's on my desktop system. I tried it in the digital out for my 9860 and it works perfectly.
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