3dfx Archive - Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD drives

FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #15 - 02.07.05 at 11:24:31 That's really odd. A solution might be to connect the Headphone to the Line out, or via a cheap Splitter to the Speaker out of the Soundcard (sharing the Output with the Speakers). That way, you won't have to compromise digial Audio out
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Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr
Reply #16 - 02.07.05 at 11:56:59

There was one day when I also wished to find and plug the 2 pin digital audio cable because I was unsatisfied with my CDROM's internal D/A, after a while (searching through various local and internat pc stores) I figured that there is almost no way getting one... Embarrassed

BUT...

What is life without some soldering from time to time
Simple as cake, I brought a piece of slim coaxial and some pins with the right spacing (those that come in a row of more that you cut into pieces are great for the job)
It works perfectly, so if you really want digital I suppose that is the easiest/simpliest way of getting it.
(this was done with a SB Live! 5.1)

BTW: I'm getting soon an AWE32 (CT 3600 the medium one)
Has anyone got to sell the biggest one (CT 3900 I belive)

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Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr
Reply #17 - 02.07.05 at 18:34:52

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BTW: I'm getting soon an AWE32 (CT 3600 the medium one)
Has anyone got to sell the biggest one (CT 3900 I belive)

I have both, I personally prefer the 39XX series. They pop up on ebay from time to time. Gary gave me one a while back. That one was included in the sale of the Mercury System. The other one I pick up on ebay for $1.00 plus $4.00 shipping. The 3600 (the smaller one) was a similar deal, I don't recall the exact price but it was under $8.00 total. Not a high demand for these any more with the lack of ISA or EISA support on modern motherboards.

Great for DOS Sound Blaster compatibility on older games Wink

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Thema Senior Member Offline Hardcore Powah Posts: 485 Slovenia Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #18 - 02.07.05 at 21:14:33 Well I got my 3600 for 1EUR combined shipping with a miro hiscore² and a hiscore pro alltogether for 5,66 EUR + shipping But so far I have not seen any 39xx, will be looking after it. BTW: do you have any idea what's the largest amount of ram that you can put in such card?
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #19 - 03.07.05 at 08:15:23 If you need the long one (36cm!), I got it. DOn't know how much you can go up to. Still, that's naughty out topic...
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Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr
Reply #20 - 03.07.05 at 08:18:03

By the way, the digital cable (S/PDIF) is a good choice, but after hours of searching and reading stuff I ended realising the best was simply having the digital data being transferred through the IDE cable and onto the sound card through the PCI or ISA bus.

My problem now is, how do I know if a CD reader supports this method and does Windows 98 SE has the option from my picture (page one on this thread)?

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gab YaBB Newbies Offline 3dfx's power, forever! Posts: 15 Buenos Aires, Argentina Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #21 - 03.07.05 at 11:26:21 check the cd ripping procesure with programs like Nero (encode tracks) it would be quite fast... and check with winamp, go to 01:32 , 04:02, 00:10, etc, without pause, then u will find that if the digital read is enabled, it will be a lot faster (than analog read)
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #22 - 03.07.05 at 12:36:43 Well, on my CD readers that don't support digital playback through IDE cable, the sound stutters or doesn't work at all. Can anyone with Windows 98 SE tell me if there is the digital playback option under CD-ROM reader properties?
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Thema Senior Member Offline Hardcore Powah Posts: 485 Slovenia Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #23 - 05.07.05 at 17:43:07 A bit off topic... I GOT MY AWE32 It's a CT3620 ( actually this one is one of the long 36xx so: 32cm ) Now in matter of days I'll test all that IDE interface stuff and report
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr Reply #24 - 06.07.05 at 08:36:02 Must be a thread about old sound cards...
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Re: Analogue and digital audio connectors on CD dr
Reply #25 - 06.07.05 at 10:40:26

@ st4r4m4m4

yeah Lux like you said:
http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=displ...

hehe anyways, glad to hear you got part of your problem solved, sorry I answered abit late Lips Sealed

but about 98SE it should have the option where you can ennable digitally.

the wierd this is the enable ditital sound is grey in my option bay, maybe it wasn't possible afteral:

click thumbnail to enlarge.

I suppose I got mixxed up with the other 3 PC's I have Undecided

sorry Luxkiller, at least I did find out where the option should be changable, got to settings then control pannel afterthat go to Multimedia, then Music from CD and on that tab there is a square tab onwhich you can enable of disable digital sound for CD players.

I never knew that this wasn't possible for SB AWE cards, very odd indeed.

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