• From: Are, Jamtland, Sweden
  • Registered: 2020-02-20
  • Posts: 42

Topic: AIO (not Pro) as DAC/output in 5.1 system

Hi,

I am very new to surround sound so this may seem like a stupid question.

I have a AIO (not Pro) card in a PC along with analogue expansion card so I have 6 balanced outputs (and 2 unbalanced if I include the headphones output).

I would like to play 5.1 Blu-ray disks on the PC using a suitable drive and appropriate player software to output the sound to the AIO card, using TotalMix to assign the channels to the 6 analogue outputs.

1) is what I am suggesting actually going to work?

2) if ‘yes’ are there any suggestions of good Windows player software that will let me use the AIO card as I’ve indicated?


Thanks,


David.

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2 Reply by waedi (edited by waedi 2024-08-02 18:44:12)

  • waedi
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  • From: Swiss Zürich
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Re: AIO (not Pro) as DAC/output in 5.1 system

1
Yes
User manual describes surround usage in details.
Totalmix free routing is not mentioned.
You can do a cable loopback trick with a toslink cable Adat out to Adat in for recording 8 Adat channels with the surround audio streams separated, if this is what you want.

2
User manual page 21 : PowerDVD and WinDVD...

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