Optical and/or digital output

I would like to know the best way to activate either of these outputs.

I assume the sound would be better than what I have now.(maybe)

Thanks.

 

It depends what you are hooking them up to. Optical requires a fiberoptic cable, or a coaxial cable for S/PDIF. Better quality audio is available via HDMI, but you would need an HDMI cable/adapter that splits the audio from it. Also, you usually can't get audio over DVI, even with a graphics card.

Also, and amplifier that actually decodes the signal is important too.

What are you connecting the audio output to?

 

Thanks for reply,

I guess I was a little confused.

I thought these could be used in place of the default speaker(SRS Audio lab)

This setting is meant to connect to an external device,right?

 

Yep.

 

Thanks again :wave

 

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