NickVon
Well-Known Member
Do they exist anymore?
the challenge: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad in a dock w/ a (coax) digital spidif out on it. I'd love to tap into that put i through a box that can then break out into 6/8 analog channels to feed into my LS9-32.
There are several uses i'm looking to get out of the device.
A) Actually DVD playback that, (while we arn't talking THX certified) will give us positional sound for DVD/DVIX playback from additional outputs.
B) Opening up the ability to use more then the Stereo Out for programs like Multiplay/Qlab on laptops.
Of the various once i found mention of online Creative Labs DDTS-10 or the Klipsh Promedia DD-5.1 neither are made or have anything in production for these purposes.
After digging around and not finding any hardware along this lines (and budget is a concern), I had the additional thought of adding a PCI-E 1x Sound Card to the laptop Dock. My concerns regarding this is that then the outputs from the sound card are stereo 1/8" which would need to be converted to 2x mono XLR and what this would do to the audio.
In addition the potential noise that might get introduced to a installed audio card in a laptop dock? Would a standalone tower PC minimize this circumstance compared to a Laptop Dock?
C) Buy a a home theatre AV receiver with Preamp outputs for the channels, run the laptop Spidif in to it then the preamp signal to channels on the Console? (trying to avoid alot of big hardware as rack space is a premium.)
Looking to spend as far below 500$ as possible.
I'm also open to other possible solutions suggestions.
Thank you in advance
the challenge: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad in a dock w/ a (coax) digital spidif out on it. I'd love to tap into that put i through a box that can then break out into 6/8 analog channels to feed into my LS9-32.
There are several uses i'm looking to get out of the device.
A) Actually DVD playback that, (while we arn't talking THX certified) will give us positional sound for DVD/DVIX playback from additional outputs.
B) Opening up the ability to use more then the Stereo Out for programs like Multiplay/Qlab on laptops.
Of the various once i found mention of online Creative Labs DDTS-10 or the Klipsh Promedia DD-5.1 neither are made or have anything in production for these purposes.
After digging around and not finding any hardware along this lines (and budget is a concern), I had the additional thought of adding a PCI-E 1x Sound Card to the laptop Dock. My concerns regarding this is that then the outputs from the sound card are stereo 1/8" which would need to be converted to 2x mono XLR and what this would do to the audio.
In addition the potential noise that might get introduced to a installed audio card in a laptop dock? Would a standalone tower PC minimize this circumstance compared to a Laptop Dock?
C) Buy a a home theatre AV receiver with Preamp outputs for the channels, run the laptop Spidif in to it then the preamp signal to channels on the Console? (trying to avoid alot of big hardware as rack space is a premium.)
Looking to spend as far below 500$ as possible.
I'm also open to other possible solutions suggestions.
Thank you in advance