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  1. Do not select LFE, subwoofer, or whatever sends the bass to the sub channel. You want the 4 full range signals going to the 4.1's. The Klipsch sorts out the frequencies on their own.

    The name 4.1 doesn't refer to 4.1 channels like 5.1 does. I guess somebody just counted the boxes and named them.

  2. Does the DD5.1 let you select which digital input to use? Are you sure it doesn't disable one if the other is connected? It only has stereo analog input so there isn't any multi-channel gaming.

    When trying to get the aiw radeon working with a via mb I read that Cinemaster, the maker of ATI's player, was coming out with a 5.1 compatable player. Their new software doesn't mention anything but s/pdif pass-through though.

    If you want full hardware support you'll need to use ATI's player. Which only supports stereo through computer's audio or s/pdif passthrough to a external decoder for ac3 or dts.

    The Panasonic SH-AC500 does all that you want, . They're hard to find now but a lot of receivers have external decoder support.(6 rca's in and 6 rca's out)

  3. Even if you use a 4.1 control pod you won't have the rear channels.

    If you use splitters you will split the sig level to 2 inputs. That would do something, wouldn't it? Lower volume, more noise? And if you are talking about line-level outs then you really won't have much to split.

    I have noticed that soundcards, and portable players give different volume levels.

    For $20 you can get a Boostaroo headphone amp that gives plenty of sig for 3 sets of headphones.(or 1 set of headphones and the v2's) http://www.boostaroo.com/

  4. That sounds like prologic kicking in.

    You have 3 groups of settings that could affect the output.

    Power-dvd has settings related to digital output.

    Windows and your soundcard's control panel has some more.

    The dd5.1 has some trickie ways to set their outputs.

    If anyone of these falls back to stereo, you're back in prologic.

  5. Sounds like you're in dolby surround mode. Are the rears muddie and without seperation? Check Justin's Soundwize site for settings for soundcard, player software, and the dvd's movie sound choices.

  6. If you are shuting down all that, then your playback ain't right anyways.

    When you boot look to see if your video card shares resources with another device.

    With early drivers for the Via chipset and the ATI Radeon I would manually reassign scsi and network card to leave irq 11 open for the agp.

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