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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Alright, this sorta sucks. I went to Fry's yesterday and tried out the Z-560's. After looking at them, I see that they have no digital input. I found out that a friend's brother has the Z-5300's. Those have no digital input. The Klipsch's, according to some of the stuff I posted above, have digital input but it doesn't work with a Crative Sound card anyway (which I have). Is there ANY way to get actual surround sound without being forced to buy Creative speakers? 
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Basically, with that creative card, the only way to get games to output a digital signal non creative speakers is to play dolby digital encoded games (maybe). Otherwise you need analog outputs. Now the audigy should have 3 analog stereo outputs: 1 for front, 1 for rear, one for center/sub. Now the problem with the new klipsch is that it doesn't take surround analog in (I think). The logitech's, however do take surround analog in (assuming they are 5.1). In which case you WILL get surround from them with games if they are setup correctly. And the D/A converter on the Audigy wasn't especially bad (at least the original), so it would actually sound pretty good.
Creative digital speakers are a gimic, I had a pair and they're onboard D/A converter was crap. This was 5 years ago, but the idea remains the same.
What Audigy model do you have, by the way?