Should I get a Creative DDTS-100??

[tboneDX]

I am planning on buying an LG L246W in a few days to use with my PC, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3, but i need to know what to do about sound.
I am moving into a college dorm this September so I wont necessarily be able to use a full 7.1 surround setup or anything (at the moment I have some Sennheiser HD500's ) but I would like to get sound easily from all of my consoles.

Is there a cheaper solution to this? Is it possible to simultaneously connect all of my consoles through my analog sound input on my motherboard and get sound like that? or should i drop the cash on this box.

I would appreciate any suggestions at all.

thanks in advance

 

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

I also want to know whether it is worth buying for my S750 creative speakers.

I am running vista 64 bit by the way.

Please advise

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

Do they still make those? I always thought about picking one up myself.

 

[Calpis]

How do you plan on playing your consoles on the lcd since it doesn't accept component inputs? (nevermind, was looking at the wrong model#)

As far as the audio goes, I linked you to an A/V switcher in your previous thread, connect your consoles to the switcher then connect to switcher to your computer's line-in.

 

[bass_ec]

I am planning on buying an LG L246W in a few days to use with my PC, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3, but i need to know what to do about sound.
I am moving into a college dorm this September so I wont necessarily be able to use a full 7.1 surround setup or anything (at the moment I have some Sennheiser HD500's ) but I would like to get sound easily from all of my consoles.

Is there a cheaper solution to this? Is it possible to simultaneously connect all of my consoles through my analog sound input on my motherboard and get sound like that? or should i drop the cash on this box.

I would appreciate any suggestions at all.

thanks in advance

Dang! I thought me having a PC and a 360 w/ 5.1 speakers was bad. A Wii, 360, PC AND a PS3???

Wow.

To answer your question...if you don't mind switching cables...Logitech makes a 5.1 game console adapter that I'd look up.

 

[nray]

I have the DDTS-100 and it works great with my Boston Acoustics BA7900 (no longer made, and best 5.1 computer speaker set ever made in IMO) and my PC, Dreamcast, Gamecube and Mac. The 5.1 bypass switch is essential for getting 5.1 from a Creative soundcard for games, and it also has plenty of digital inputs (three optical, one coax) and analog (three not including the bypass). While the button ergonomics could be better, and the remote could be better, it's still probably the best product that Creative has done (why? because it works, is good quality, and works reliably).

To answer your question about passing console audio through, you can't do that and retain discreet multichannel. PC sound cards (unless they are pro audio) only have one stereo input, which would mean any surround signal coming out of a console would have to be a 'matrix' surround where the multiple channels are all encoded into and pulled out of just two channels, and the quality will suffer.

 

[tboneDX]

i was able to rout the sound from my ps3 through the input (multi?) jack on my onboard sound. The sound sounded alright, but I also picked up some feedback from the microphone i have stuck in the mess of cables behind my desk

I'm considering getting that ddts-100 now, any idea where i can pick one up? fred meyer is clean out lol

thanks

 

[tboneDX]

bump, where do i buy this

 

[DarkAngel_ZERO]

I managed to snag mine through Amazon via a 3rd party seller, but I don't know if they still have it listed there or not.

Fuckin' love the thing tho...if only they'd make the speaker passthrough a built-in component, rather than a separate dongle.