As what the title says, is there any difference in terms of audio quality? Thanks.

AV audio as in the white-red jacks?
digital output can gives you discrete 5.1 channel if you got the decoder that support it. while the red-white jacks can gives you 5.1 also if your decoder support pro-logic 2, but it is through sound processing from 2 channels, and not dedicated 6 channels.

Yeah, the red and white jacks. Would like to ask your advice if its worth getting the digital output. I currently have the Xbox AV cable( Red and white) connected to an audio in cable(green) which is connected to my computer soundcard. Think it will make a difference if i chance it with the digital output? Thanks.

red n white audio jack is only 2 channel stereo L/R in analog.
even with decoder with pro logic 2 processing it's still 2 channel stereo split into 5 channels.

as mentioned above, digital will gives you the best audio quality, clearer, crisper and sharper compared to analog.

but it also depends on your audio source, garbage in garbage out theory applies here. Also the type of cable you use for the digital audio. Fiber optic cable will gives you the best performance.

My advice is... change to Digital, and you won't regret it

Thanks ! Any idea how to connect the xbox to my soundcard? Is it possible?

does your soundcard support audio-IN through fibre optic?
coz thats the only way if you want 6 channels sounds. btw, whats your sound card?

I have the creative sound blaster audigy 2 ZS. I'm not sure, I see some really big port, not sure if its fibre optics. Thanks

nope, sorry. your sound card doesn't have optical-IN. follow the link below and see the audigy 2 external picture, there's a port with optical-IN written below it. you need something like that to get Dolby Digital (6 channels)
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/creati...2-zs/index.html

what your card can do is, using the 2 channels and up-mix it to become 6 channels.

I'm using live elite...

when play dvd only got tht sound out from optical, others like game no sound at all

I was talking to some other forumer the other day who's also an AV enthusiast, and apparently HDMI > Digital > RCA(red/white) ... so since you're thinking of upgrading, might as well future-proof your system and go for HDMI!

I'm already using HDMI but the thing is HDMI doesn't have sound.

what is your setup?

playing the 360 on your pc screen thus u want to share the pc speakers as well?

dude... HDMI IS digital

In terms of audio, fiber optic >> copper
and digital can be transmitted in both fiber or copper
HDMI is still copper, and it just mix the audio and video signal under one cable

I think what the other forumer mean is that HDMI > Single RCA Digital (SPDIF, digital, usually light green) > RCA (red/white analog stereo)
but for audio, still nothing beats the fiber optic.

For TS's case, your soundcard should a port labeled SPDIF or digital in, which is light green in color, right?
that's already a Digital port, but unfortunately Xbox doesn't have a digital out in the form of that.
Digital audio from Xbox will be either be HDMI or fiber optic, so TS can just get the add on module with fiber optic in for his sound card.

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Added on May 5, 2008, 3:49 pmI'm assuming you r using a LCD monitor with HDMI input, right?
sorry to say that most of the LCD monitor with HDMI input doesn't receive the audio stream from the HDMI, but process the video stream only.



This post has been edited by greyshadow: May 5 2008, 03:49 PM