If Logitech could manufacture even my dad, I'd make the purchase

[LeftEyeNine]

After about 2-3 years of craving, yesterday was the day it all come true.

I arrived at the store and purchased Logitech Z5500 in the morning and set it up as soon as I came back home.

Despite the fact that the speakers already sound out of this world, we tried to maximize what could be harvested out of them. So we fired up a movie which has got DTS track, yet, to no avail.

I'm using BSPlayer latest version and K-Lite Codec Pack. The OS is Windows 7 and the speakers are connected via optic cable for S/PDIF output.

Anybody got an idea how to get DTS sound ?

Thanks in advance.

Ref. to the doesn't-make-a-sense title: We got a saying that goes "I'd eat my dad should he come out of the sea", praising the seafood.

[KukriKhan]

I saw this sentence on the Logitech Spec-sheet:

6 channel direct (3 stereo-mini connectors) for 3 stereo analog mini audio sources, like CD and DVD players, Playstation 2, Xbox, or 2 channel PC sound cards (somedevices may require stereo mini to dual RCA adapter, sold separately)

I wonder about soundcard compatability.

[LeftEyeNine]

I was able to make an optical connection with the on-board sound chip and the speakers' control pod which practically means compatability is out of question, Kukri-sensei.

[KukriKhan]

Hmmm... something deeper then.

[LeftEyeNine]

Not deeper than my stupidity, Kukri-sama.

* Install the latest AC3Filter.
* Open AC3 Config.
* Check "Use S/PDIF" under the Output Format of Main tab.
* Go to S/PDIF tab.
* Select "AS IS (no change)" and "PCM 24bit" (depending on your chip's capability, of course).
* Next to it is the S/PDIF Passthrough. Check AC3 and DTS there.
* Click Apply.
* Voila !

[Tellos Athenaios]

So the problem was you didn't have the software to handle DTS streams (i.e. your sound card didn't ship with a driver+utility which does it OOTB) ?

[LeftEyeNine]

I had K-Lite Codec Pack which includes whole bunch of stuff that is needed to decode almost everything yet I got no idea how this slipped through.

My sound is provided by the onboard Realtek ALC888 chip integrated to my Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R mobo.

I am still failing to play .dts files the way they are supposed to, by the way. The control pod's display should show "dts digital" or something when a .dts track's playback commences. It plays it in Dolby Digital PLII Music effect, showing that it's a PCM file instead; not rawly transferred and directly decoded by the DTS decoder of Z5500. Maybe the file itself is not DTS-encoded ?