CloudySkies
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I'm completely new to this and just wanted to clear up a few things. First of all, what exactly IS the optical out that everybody keeps talking about? For a barebones computer to speaker/no amp, etc setup, is this something that I would even use? Then as far as surround goes, the similarly priced Creative Soundblaster Live has some sort of Dolby encoding or whatever and a bunch of other features.software for shaping the overall sound....is this stuff actually useful and something that I would need as compared to the barebones Chaintech? And finally, I want to go with a 5.1 or higher speaker setup for surround sound, how many channels would I want/use for this, as I also keep reading that the Chaintech is only good for 2 channel use. What exactly IS a channel anyway and how does this affect music and gaming? Thanks in advance....I am the noob
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