NF7-S and coaxial spdif

[Dan (48)]

I have speakers from Altec Lansing, ADA880, and they only have a coaxial spdif port. I am thinking of buying the NF7-S from abit, but am a little hesistant because I don't know if I'll be able to use soundstorm with my speakers, and I have heard that analog is crap. I really like these speakers and do not have the money to buy new ones. I have heard that there is an ABIT Media XP? connection on the board and was wondering if I could connect some sort of spdif header into it. If so, does anyone know where I could buy a header to accomplish this and how to do it? If I can't solve this problem then I will either have to dish out $20 extra for the asus a7n8x deluxe (an inferior board IMO), or $80 for an audigy sound card. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[John Russell]

"Dan" wrote:

I have speakers from Altec Lansing, ADA880, and they only have a coaxial spdif port. I am thinking of buying the NF7-S from abit, but am a little hesistant because I don't know if I'll be able to use soundstorm with my speakers, and I have heard that analog is crap. I really like these speakers and do not have the money to buy new ones. I have heard that there is an ABIT Media XP? connection on the board and was wondering if I could connect some sort of spdif header into it. If so, does anyone know where I could buy a header to accomplish this and how to do it? If I can't solve this problem then I will either have to dish out $20 extra for the asus a7n8x deluxe (an inferior board IMO), or $80 for an audigy sound card. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

You can only run 4.1/5.1 setups connected via SPDIF if you have an external Dolby Digital decoder. If you don't use the NF7-S's DD encoder you will be stuck with stereo via the single SPDIF (or Dolby Pro-logic which is stereo based). Some of the altec's have a single SPDIF for the front speakers, and analog for the rest.