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Someone posted that the pros use 4 watts in standby. 50 cents a month? It's always good to use protection.

Check out the Kingmax DVD Decoder Card. I have one of these and the dongle has a standard video out, a s-video jack, an AC3 digital, and a 1/8" stereo minijack. They run about $50 on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1218470897 If someone could hack registries and addresses to use the minijacks of the notebook and the zv-dvd at the same time for 4ch to the pros?

http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/Digital-XG/DigitalXG.html http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/Digital-NX/DigitalNX.html I would take a hard look a both of these reviews. Even with the daughter cards they cost less than a creative live. They also make the digital i/o cards for creative.

It looks like this is a stereo card. Best sound will be with a panasonic decoder, the midiland ADS2000, or the Sherewood DTS80 decoder as KBlair posted. If you adapter from your rca plugs to minijacks and then split that signal between the pros' two miniplugs you must degrade your sound. If you want spent that kind of money go to Hoontech.com and check out their 4 & 8 track stuff. They even have a bulletin board but they should take a lesson here.

Some Mitsubishi Diamondtron owners might argue.

If you splice onto the same plugs you will have to leave something to solder to. That would seem to defeat the purpose of using a larger gage wire. Go to Radio Shack and spend $7 for fresh plugs.

From where? I'll look around their site. Do they have a .pdf file of their scematics. All I've seen sofar are the photos and block diags.

Shipping cost, parts and a tech that can actually solder, cost more than the cp1.

Some soundcards just don't have the juice to drive the pros as they should be. That's the way analog is. You can check this out using different sources, a walkman, boombox, stereo headphone jacks on a receiver with volume control, etc... Is the Altec system one of those with the digital inputs? I had a set of the ADA106, and the difference between the analog inputs and the s/pdif input was amazing.

Amy, . Is there any way to get a set of scematics for my v2-400s? I'd like to have a set for my records. I'll be keeping these for a long time, 10 year extended warrenty. A .pdf would do. Please?

What are the differences between the old pros and the new pros? I read the review that mentioned the new crossover points in the satellites, the new 2 color led, headphone jack, and a power switch. Anything else? Does it still use the 2 miniplugs for input? No bass/subwoofer input? Looks like the knobs are the same.

If you try to use all of your speakers at once you'll mess-up your soundfield's image. Are you going to use the pros' with a computer for A3D surround gaming? If so, any other speakers will interfere with the game's effects. If its just for those high horsepower moments you can use the RCAjack to miniplug on the receiver's aux out to soundcard line-in, or inverse for games. Leave 5.1 sys for dvds, set the pros for gaming, and link'em for the 1000 watt blast.

I've thought about macrame, hanging loose may be better than walls vibrating.

2 ways to get DTS decoding of DVDs & cds http://www.klipsch.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/002576.html Or the Panasonic SH-AC500D as sugg. by DanF, $250 dlvd. . With the sherewood decoder, you'll need a software decoder(win-DVD or power-DVD), but it's only $80.

JakeJeckel, would it benefit cooling to mount the amp/back in a seperate box and fab a new back for the sub?

nice links, maybe a game developer sdk has support for surround sound?

vanns.com, can order extended home speaker for $60= 10 year, cones & amps. Call & speak to sales about warrenty. . Sorry, just checked, out of stock. . oh-well, I got mine.

http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/Digital-NX/DigitalNX.html Hoontech, 96dB Digital Input(Coaxial, Optical, AES/EBU) & Digital Out ( Coaxial, Optical, AES/EBU) with NX DB II & ST DB III Supports 4Speaker Digital AMP (PA Digital/4ch, ST Digital AMP/4Ch) with NX DB II Supports Digital Out (Coaxial,Optical) with NX DB I worth a closer look.

Going from analog to a digital input improves everything. Analog has to deal with many various input voltages. Run your Pros off of different sources, such as a walkman, a boombox, a soundcard, and a home stereo preamp. Each will give you a different maximum volume and sound qualities.Pros being underdriven(weak bass, unimpressive performance, etc.)or driven to clipping levels(cutting out at high volumes) I had a set of ADA106 that had both AC3 thru the s/pdif and an analog minijack w/prologic decoder builtin. When I upgraded to the Aureal SQ2500 with the s/pdif the improvement was unbelievable, no static, no pops&clicks. Before, I would run at level 8 volume, & sub at high levels, after going digital I ran vol at 3, and bass has been the best I've had yet. Now I want that kind of improvement from Klipch. I don't believe that a separate analog bass input is going make any difference. The Pros would benefit more from signal matching than a sub input & 4ch mixdown.

DTS and AC3 are not $100 an option in DVD players. I want DTS & AC3 hardware on my sound board or DTS in software before I spend my money. My old Aureal sq2500 board has among the best A3d and 98db noise levels. (still really good years later)

You connect your AE card to the ADS box in 2 ways. You use the s/pdif to play AC3 surround sound thru your decoder. This will not decode DTS surround. Second, you connect the analog outputs from the AE board, using RadioShack, to the first analog inputs of the ADS box. You do this to use of the game surround, A3D, and all the 4 channel imaging effects. You should set the AE for 4 channel mixdown, and the ADS to 4 channel/ no lfe channel output to the pro's miniplugs with more RadioShack. You can then use the remote to switch between movies and comp/games, ect.

What's your plan? Linux, Win98? I'm looking at Linksys stuff.

Getting rid of the analog miniplugs and going digital would reduce noise, allow software volume & balance controls, and simplify wiring. Has anyone used the USB speakers? If Klipch is making changes, make a change that gives something new.

So what is the purpose of being 4.1 instead 5.1? Is some one going to produce a 4.1 sound card? What kind of inputs will the 4.1 have? 3 stereo miniplugs with one dead leg? 2 miniplugs + whatever soundblaster uses for lfe channel prob. I guess the software will still have to do the 4channel mixdown, but now creative circuitry will separate the lfe channel instead of that designed by Klipch? Not by my choice. Is klipch trying to avoid using the s/pdif? Even if they used the s/pdif there would still be the problem of getting A3D and EAX game surround through it.(stereo only} The mpeg2-AAC, which supports the s/pdif, leaves AC3 and DTS in the dust. With a little silicon in the sub, USB, software volume & balance controls to get rid of the lame preamp, and you get rid of miniplugs, crackling knobs, a couple of din plugs and wires. Klipch could toss in a $15 chip decoder for AC3 and DTS and be so far ahead of all the competition...

You can say its just sour-grapes if you want to, but I don't see that taking the job of creating the lfe from ProMedia to the sblive is going to help anything. There are only a few soundcards that can handle 4.1 sound, and Win-DVD does the AC3 4.0 mixdown just fine. I want software DTS or a card with AC3, DTS and mixdown on chip. . Besides, I've got mine now.